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Featured Poetry

Elias Tucker – Corona del Mar

February 1, 2026January 31, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Emerging poet Elias Tucker offers much more than a love poem with his "Corona del Mar". He offers praise and gratitude to God.

Tagged awe, beach, california, God, grateful, Gratitude, life, Life is beautiful, love, love poem, ocean, Poem, poet, Poetry, praise, shoreLeave a comment
Poetry

Heather Swan – Another Day Filled with Sleeves of Light

October 10, 2025September 28, 2025 Sam Shapiro

In our time alive, what if we trusted just as the falling raindrop trusts the holding of the approaching ocean?

Tagged faith, Joy, letting go, Light, lily, nature, nourishment, ocean, plant, trust1 Comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Summer Week 13

October 2, 2025September 21, 2025 Trent Thomson

Summer Week 13 BY CHRIS KESSLER

Tagged ocean, Seasonal, summer, sunLeave a comment
Always Halfway
All About Love

We Are Always Halfway

December 20, 2023December 20, 2023 Vanessa Able

BY DICK VERSTEGEN Being halfway is not discouraging, but liberating. It is the resting place of constant alertness.

Tagged attention, Bodhisattva, buddha nature, delusion, dharma, halfway, illusion, liberation, ocean, refuge, SufferingLeave a comment
Tangen Harada Roshi
Book Bits

Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness

August 3, 2023August 3, 2023 Vanessa Able

Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.

Tagged Buddhism, change, Emptiness, flow, form, impermanence, ocean, Original Mind, true nature, Waterfall, ZenLeave a comment
Kahlil Gibran
Poetry

Kahlil Gibran – Fear

January 19, 2023January 16, 2023 Vanessa Able

Kahlil Gibran's poem on the fear of dissipation is a call to faith, to trust in the oceanic nature of the life-manifesting force.

Tagged becoming, Death, faith, Fear, ocean, Poetry, river, trust3 Comments
Featured Poetry

Christy Allen – Meditation

September 4, 2022September 1, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Christy's poem "Meditation" is a simple Zen-like offering, equating breathing with the tides, and also highlighting oneness and interconnection.

Tagged breath, Breathing meditation, Meditation, ocean, Poem, poet, Poetry, sea, waves, ZenLeave a comment
Ernest Hemingway
Book Bits

La Mar, El Mar: Ernest Hemingway’s Kind, Beautiful, Cruel Ocean

July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 Vanessa Able

Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea', has to be one of the most accomplished accounts of a lifetime's intimacy with the sea.

Tagged cruelty, fate, femenine, luck, ocean, sea, Silence, struggle2 Comments
Pablo Neruda
Poetry

Pablo Neruda – The Sea

July 7, 2021January 19, 2026 Vanessa Able

Pablo Neruda wonders at the draw that pulls us in to the unknown, shifting ablutions that are the action of the sea and of water.

Tagged ablution, magnetism, mystery, ocean, Poetry, pure movement, sea, teaching, unknown, Water4 Comments
Eihei Dogen
Book Bits, The Masters, Zen

Dogen’s Seal of the Ocean: How Meditation and Life Can Flow Like Water

July 6, 2021August 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dogen invokes an oceanic state of non-identification as something that expresses the true Dharma, or our true nature, according to the teachings of Buddha.

Tagged authenticity, being, Buddha, depth, Meditation, ocean, oceanic, sea, seal, Shobogenzo, Source, Water, Zen1 Comment

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