ETHEREAL SEA
So many faces you have!
How I love everyone,
Did you bid the sun and clouds
to be just so today?
To show your ethereal, inner Self,
whilst the sky took advantage,
used the mirror you bestowed;
Like Narcissus admiring what it saw,
Your face on a stormy day;
fearsome, mighty drama on display,
No theatre could this attain,
The sky follows suit
clouds so magnificent, in dark hues,
At times the sun glints through
to remind who is the Star
of this eternal Show.
@ miriam ivarson
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I so long to be by the shore. Thank you.
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You are welcome B. I so understand your longing. I sat by the sea having lunch last week and knew how I missed it. It is an almost visceral feeling.
Shall we hop on a flight and meet up. 😊🦋
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Miriam, I’m enthralled with your poem, and your conversation with the mighty ocean! Watching it one does feel as if it controls all, is the powerful force all around us. It is indeed as if being present at the best theatre show in the world! How can one fail but be mesmerised. I love your final lines here and how your suddenly turn to the sun … the real Star (in both meanings of the word!)! A joy to read and your photos are beautiful and ethereal. 😀❤️
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Wow, Annika, thank you for your wonderful response. It lights my heart. When you say I am having a conversation with the ocean I realise that I had many such over the years. And the sky, and all there is.
Such a show and all free. 😊 .
Thank you for noticing the turn upwards. Without the Star ( sun ) we wouldn’t have the show. 💕
miriam
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An inspiring look at the power, beauty and wonder of a seas many guises, I’m always in awe of the seas, yet also mesmerised how easily they’re pushed n pulled by the moon.
Thank you Miriam.
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Thank you Nigel for your kind response.
Yes, ” To the forces of the moon
The sea will rise and fall
Mystery and magic on display” 😊
The sea, the oceans have a magic for many of us. Yes it has so many guises but all of them seem in tune with the winds and of course the moon.
I forgot to state that I took the photos as I spent a couple of weeks on the East coast of Florida and saw and heard the Atlantic Ocean every day.
Myself I am born by the North Sea, a wild one at times.
miriam
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It does have so many faces. Love that idea.
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Jacqui, thank you. Yes, maybe just like humans at times. 😊 .
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Some pictures evoke indescribable feelings but you have captured them brilliantly Miriam. I was trying to think could this poem be as meaningful and profound as it seems, without the pictures and each word spoke to me…we stand alone as we hold emotions. The real beauty unfolds with the twist in the end…the power of the sea and the sun is ineffable. So is their beauty!
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Wow Balroop, thank you for this beautiful reply. I asked myself the same question, would the pictures be enough. They do tell the words to me.
I can only think – like others – I felt compelled to share what I felt before I burst. And a number of you felt the same wonder, that makes it grow for me.
You like the twist at the end and Annika mentioned the same. It seriously wrote itself. Or did I subconsciously observe it and wrote? Who knows. 😊 .
bless
miriam
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I like when you say…it wrote itself… that is what is poetry – ‘a spontaneous overflow…
Many of my poems have written themselves and I am amazed at them, thinking…did I write them? 🙂
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Ah, we feel so same. Maybe it is simple as that…then we edit our text. 💕
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Exquisite words and photos, Miriam…wonders of the sea! ❤ xo
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Thank you Bette, I am so glad you liked both and that you felt the compelling wonder of sea and sky. All in communion.
❤️🦋
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This is so well written.
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Thank you Vikram, I am glad you felt so. 🦋🖍
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such powerful
inner & outer
reflections, miriam!
who, indeed 🙂
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Thanks David for your poetic answer
I do love them.:)
Your response gives me joy..
Who indeed? Maybe we can just vaguely see.
😊
miriam
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This is very beautiful, Miriam. I really enjoyed reading it.
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Thanks you Robbie for your sweet words. Glad the post made you glad.
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Your poem entered my heart, and it will stay there forever. I feel the same way about the ocean, and at times wish I was a seagull, constantly searching the ocean’s waves for answers (and food…) xo
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Thank you so very much for your beautiful comment. What a lovely place my little poem has got – in your heart. I now shine with the sun.
Yes, if we don’t have the wings, let us fly in our imagination. Feel the winds and fill the senses with the song of the ocean. By then the answers are there.
Simple and true.
miriam
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Beautiful! I love all of the ocean’s personalities. You’re making me want to dive in, but I guess we’ll have to wait for the summer. 🙂
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I LOVE your nature poetry, and the pictures are perfect! I can envision the many moods of the sea in the words; you’ve painted a beautiful image 😀
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Julie, thank you for your kind comment. I am glad as I love nature and every day is a wonder when I walk around. I guess my two last poems have been about Nature and us. 😊🦋
miriam
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Miriam, it’s wonderful to read your poem inspired by the beauty and power of the sea. The lyrical quality of this poem touched me deeply and the photos of the sea and the clouds are truly magnificent. I’m enchanted by the idea of sea and sky reflecting with each other. What beach did you visit? Ethereal is the perfect word.
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Sharon, thank you so much for this beautiful and appreciative comment.
I am deeply touched that it awoke these feeling within you.
I took these photos…..and plenty more…at Smyrna Beach on Florida’s east coast during a fortnight stay in a condo there. Heavenly to just walk those beaches early morning and then again later.
miriam
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Although a landlubber I am always drawn to the sea, and its different moods. It demands respect and sits deep in the psyche – with that feeling of a much deeper relationship which has been lost in the mists of time but still echoes through the ages. Standing on the beach watching the waves meet the shore can be mesmerising and seems to refresh and energise the soul. Your poem seems to convey this perfectly.
Mike
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Thank you Mike for your strong and kind comment.
I do so agree with all you say that I don’t want to answer only part.
Suffice it to say I do know the mesmerising and energising feeling of walking along the shore or just stand and watch the waves roll in. Listen to the age old song and rhythm.
Miriam
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