{"id":377,"date":"1987-07-03T07:20:07","date_gmt":"1987-07-03T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:02:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:02:47","slug":"open-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/07\/03\/open-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To look in any direction and see<br \/>\nLight blue o&#8217;erhead and dark blue beneath<br \/>\nTells one that one is on the sea &#8211;<br \/>\nThe open sea,<br \/>\nWhere only openness may triumph. <\/p>\n<p>That openness, opening up<br \/>\nExperience of the cleansing,<br \/>\nPacifying, and uplifting<br \/>\nOceans,<br \/>\nThat is where I would be.<\/p>\n<p>To be alone on an open sea,<br \/>\nWould fill more needs than there ever could be.<br \/>\nWhat needs more than self and love,<br \/>\nAnd a chance to grow<br \/>\nCould there be?<br \/>\nThe chance to know as<br \/>\nDoes the sea,<br \/>\nThat all is one<br \/>\nIn unity:<br \/>\nAll is one in Love.<\/p>\n<p>Then knowing that<br \/>\nThere could not be<br \/>\nMore than this sea,<br \/>\nThis sea of sustenance,<br \/>\nThis sea of energy,<br \/>\nOf Matter which is this energy:<br \/>\nThe universe is my sea,<br \/>\nAnd though seeming alone<br \/>\nI sail on,<br \/>\nTravelling through the<br \/>\nCurrents of time.<\/p>\n<p>I have no need for any more.<br \/>\nI have no more needs<br \/>\nWhen this is realized. <\/p>\n<p>This realization is the only thing that<br \/>\nAll must come to terms with.<br \/>\nThis realization is the only thing<br \/>\nThat really counts.<\/p>\n<p>The sea may help me find<br \/>\nThat realization<br \/>\nWhen alone with an ocean surrounding<br \/>\nI am allowed to ponder,<br \/>\nTo create my thoughts, and<br \/>\nRelive the destiny<br \/>\nI created.<\/p>\n<p>That sea may help me<br \/>\nRealize the tininess,<br \/>\nThe punity of my own life<br \/>\nWhen compared to the vastness<br \/>\nThat is the universal ocean<br \/>\nOf Energy and Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To look in any direction and see<br \/> Light blue o&#8217;erhead and dark blue beneath<br \/> Tells one that one is on the sea &#8211;<br \/> The open sea,<br \/> Where only openness may triumph. <\/p>\n<p>That openness, opening up<br \/> Experience of the cleansing,<br \/> Pacifying, and uplifting<br \/> Oceans,<br \/> That is where I would be.<\/p>\n<p>To be [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-oceans","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}