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Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse # 61
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Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse # 61
come join us!
The ocean does not preach a sermon
Though it has much to tell
That it shares with the moon and every sea shell
It bravely tells as it swells to the shore
Deep like a poet that speaks high to the sea gulls that soar
But Its stories are not heard by man and his makings
For he does not hear when he is too busy taking
He builds and he builds as he strips from the land
It is a sad truth widely known by each grain of sand
So the sea keeps on moving and reaching out
Whispering a message of longing that is true no doubt
For The ocean does not preach a sermon
Though it has much to say
It is heard not in man’s churches but in each unsettling
wave.
©Carrie Van Horn 2019
©Carrie Van Horn 2019
This is an eerie poem, the sense of having missed something important washes under every line.
ReplyDeleteIf only the sea could speak, it has much it wants to tell us . . :)
ReplyDeleteYes, "man is too busy taking." I love "the ocean does not preach a sermon."
ReplyDeleteSo true, Carrie. Love this poetry of the sea.
ReplyDeleteThe sea does not preach a sermon but is evidence of a manifestation of beauty power and awe which reinforces a belief of a higher being or force present.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful poem Carrie, I love your lines, "the ocean does not preach a sermon, Though it has much to say, It is heard not in man’s churches but in each unsettling wave." It's what draws us in, those unsettling waves.
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