39 Poems To the Sea SAGARADHAR Rocking Cradle of the World Sunset Stairway to the Stars Only by Great Masters Trod Only Written on by God. IT SNOWS AT SEA It Snows At Sea Quiet Falls in flakes Melting designs leave form for All. RAIN AT SEA Rain on the sea.... a redundancy? as are reflected fires neath ignited stars? giving back a tiny peace of the love God pours MAVOORNING Out of the sea the sun aborning with his awesome light of morning Not adorned but all adorning says to you "Come! My Mavoorning!" WATER HELD THE QUILL Faster than any stylus squiggling Can write the sun in the water wiggling But when the sea is perfectly still it appears it was water which held the quill. DO NOT DISTURB God has put a 'do not disturb' sign over the green shelled limpets cozily nesting in lime waters limpid DUNE GRASS BRUSHES From the shore.. one looks upward to the sanddune grass.. 10,000 green brushes attempting where they laid to paint the blue sky jade HURRICANE KATE Hurricane Kate forced proud palms to padnamasakar the humble ocean Because she the sea everywhere has feet it's not hard for them to show their devotion COCONUT PITCHER The full moon poured pitcher after pitcher of coconut milk into the sea.. and the sea.. she silvered it all. SEA PITCHER I gave him a pitcher. With it he gave me the sea. * FOAM LACE TABLE CLOTH Mother Earth set daisy tables that upon them bees might sit. Mother Earth set buttercups that from them bees might sip sunup Mother Sea.. threw a foamlace tablecloth over the flat rock in the bay.. that her fishies might dine.. and when they were finished she slid it off and sudsed the rock clean with her surf. SEA NILE Where to salt water turns the sweet Where aqua becomes royal navy Where robins slowly become sea gulls And the linear to spherical gives sway is where the sea is wed to Nile.. Some thought the Nile was senile.. but he was far beyond earth's cares merged in the ecstasy .. of the ebbtide sea .. only a murmuring to say where he'd merged LAVA TURNED TO JEWELS She the sea .. receives red hot lava and transmutes it into green glass jewels. She the listening compassionate ear turns anger into love. SEAS OF PEACE The tides of the seas do wane and cease .. but the waves of the sea have no surcease .. Yet these restless waves do give us peace .. all on her sands healed by her perfect peace SHROUD TO SAIL The shroud in which she did lie is now sail for ship of joy. Her tomb's boulder now the cornerstone of resurrection. The mist which clouded mirror of soul replaced by God's reflection and ice of pain on sea did melt.. it now flashes sun's perfection. SEA RECEIVES ALL LONELY RIVERS Receives all arrows the universal quiver as the sea receives all lonely rivers as the sea purifies all polluted rivers as the sea calms all ruffled rivers PEACEMAKERS At times they crash upon the shore .. sometimes they gently lap sometimes.. they roll sometimes they scroll these waves.. these peacebreakers .. never breaking the peace.. these peacemakers FOUR NATIONS In poisonous prussic acid they dipped their lethal harpoon tips and Norway's Svend Foyn developed a gun torpedo .. a karmic tornado to whales with mechanical harpoons slay in calm or in typhoons (to the people of Japan, Norway, Iceland and the US .. please stop this ancient barbarism as the last 5 nations to slay whales OCEAN CROWN Changing landscapes but the seascape.. one cannot look at its surface and know if it is 2003 BC or 2000 AD Neath the wingweave of gulls.. they tossed a wreath upon her to give her a crown How absurd.. this tiny little crown.. upon her infinite immensity .. but she is not interested in honors from earth.. and she swept it to the shore NEPTUNE AND THE MOON The full moon is a mate of Neptune Into the silent mirroring sea was thrown a stone which shattered her face but calm was restored and the healed icon was ensconced once again in her watery throne... He did her array in azure seaspray .. and made a necklace which heightened her rays and let no drop go astray ARRIVE SHE SHALL Beyond shallows where conch has left his shelter for a less confining shell Past sunslivers quivering in waves' gentle swell Away from softly lappin tidalpools' diurnal upwell Daily to her quiet seasoul for a brief spell .. come she shall 3 WAVE STEPS 3 tiers of waves .. each of them starred by the diamond sun 3 rings .. a triple crown .. for the horse as she entered the sea CALL OF THE SEA Ubiquitous is the voice of the Sea in the steady raindrops' beating of the leaky roof's peachcan drum... in the trickle of spring's melting snow .. in the brook's cheery chirping wintershaking as he seaward faster flows in summer's lightning and rainpour in the waterfall's awesome roar in powerful Mississippi's silent murmur in the portal waves' omkar* Millenial temple to Poseidon stands on his shores.. its granite rectangles crumbling.. while His pourable Blueness remains. Rockgirt tide pools, and bonegirt eye depths remind us of Him. Down from his heights His Royal Lowness Piscean calls his brother Capricorn From her crystallized opposition with the magnetism of His limitless pull He calls Mother Earth. How does he heal? the sea? With his lowlying humility? Proud rivers must stoop to take padnamaskar. In every conch shell hear his gulls. In every place where lovewaters gather and pool.. hear his call.. summoning all to his vastness his majesty Sooner or later every drop will rush to His call. (to the 12th chamber in everyone's soul mansion) * based on Baba's sentence (to the Avatar and all His children drops) (padnamaskar: touching the feet of the Guru) COBBLER I am the tree which made the peach which became the cobbler, said the peachtree. I cobbled the street, said the stone. I cobbled the sea, said the wind. I made the wind so I cobbled the sea, said God. SCHUYLKILL The Schuylkill does no fish schools kill When she encounters a rock the river never stops never stops growing .. she keeps rising or seeping....or flowing Past banks flowering she will flow .. she will arrive .. to merge in her Love, the Sea and In him in joy to dive DONEGALWAY So many sires he had in Donegal .. so many foremothers in Galway ..he was made of Donegalway ...in every cell of his being called the sea to itself DORIES ANCHOR Quiet Peace of Eve Fishing dories anchor.. lapping Grateful are fishes. POSEIDON TEMPLE Millenia ago sealovers built to Poseidon a temple by the sea.. they hoped it might outlast the sea.. with its marble pillars by the sea's wave pillows with its rockhard stability ..and unfishy sterility by the sea's ancient senility.. As it has crumbled into seagirting sand it seems to have multiplied everywhere.. in blue wavewashed tidal pools ..(resembling blue eyes set within noble brows) .. they lead to their master: the Sea Eternal GULL STACCATO'D He says the sea forever chants omkar as she abides reflecting the stars.. .. gull staccato'd .. their screams counterpoint her invulnerable ananda. NOT THE BOAT You're not the boat .. you are the sea SEACHARGE The sea charges the shore and withdraws to charge some more. NEPTUNE'S HAIR Neptune's hair its wavelet strands melted the castles in the sands but further inland with his tidal hand sent coconuts onto the shining sands which have become a palm tree stand MERE'S MIRRORS A storm tossed sea reflects a fractured Sun as if God were chaotic The silent ocean of no motion mirrors God's miracles and mercy.. in the mere. Even those moored on the shore harvest the bliss. SERMON OF THE SEA What is the silent sermon of the sea she bequeaths to each mermaid and merman she in seaweed wreathes. What is her legacy in each leg of the sea? Accept all lonely rivers.. Don't strive.. just be Offer your self to God the Sun Be at peace beneath gulls' staccato shrieks. WHAT ARE THE THISTLES' EPISTLES Merely let go of your seeds and the wind will scatter them the rain will enkindle them the sun will lift them DIRECTOR'S CHAIR Pat asked God who her teacher was and was given a vision of a director's chair facing the ocean. Perhaps it meant only Her who can control the ocean's roll or Him who can walk on the sea's liquid scroll DREAM OF PIER She walked to the edge of the pier.. the Sea of God beckoned to her.. but she could not bring the discs she clasped in her hand with her.. and sadly turned around .. never mind.. there will come a time when her strongest urge is with God to merge SEA CRASHING UPON ROCKS We do not always want the sea to be at peace .. or to be specific we don't always want a pacific Pacific at times we want to stand on a mountain above and watch the waves crash upon the rocks .. the sound is shakti itself ENTERING THE TEMPLE Children enter the temple of the sea splashing raucously Older souls enter with reverence slowly silently They enter the shrine of the sea. WHITE AND BLUE fringe of white sand then blue of the sea fringe of white wave then blue of the sky fringe of white cloud then blue of your eyes ***** 3 Wave Steps Arrive She Shall to Jan P B Call of the Sea Cobbler of the Sea to Bill Lance Coconut Pitcher to Ruth Thomas, at 93 with 70 years of peace education under her belt.. still going strong Director's Chair Dongegalway Dories' Anchor Dream of Pier Dune Grass Brushes Foam Lace Table Cloth to Betsy Frost Four Nations Gull Staccato'd Hurricane Kate to EKB It Snows at Sea (to J Denholm and David S) Lava To Jewels (to L Lichty) Mavoorning to Ethel L Mere's Mirrors Neptune and Moon Neptune's Hair Not Boat Ocean Crown Ocean Pitcher to C Lassell who got our water turned on Peacemakers Poseidon Temple to Ed and Nancy who have done so much teaching others to cherish the sea Rain at Sea Rocking Cradle or Sagaradhar (to D and P Wilson) Redundancy (to our father) Sagaradhar to D and P Wilson Schuylkill Seacharge Seas Of Peace Sea Receives All Rivers (to E Hubiak) SeaNile (to M and B Milcetich) Sermon of the Sea Shroud to Sail (to J B O) Water Held the Quill (to Mark Braunstein) Sagaradhar: Sanskrit for God as holder of the ocean Padnamaskar: Sanskrit for the devotion of touching the Feet of the Master Omkar: repetition of Om Ananda: joy He in "Gull Staccato'd".. refers to Sai Baba YOu're not the Boat is to Jan Wemni Please consider downloading on the web on rice, cotton, scrap, or other nontree paper working for marine mammals http://www.cousteau.org http://www.seashepherd.org http://www.hsus.org http://www.nrdc.org http://www.peta.org and thousands of other groups © Saiom Shriver
