So far,
\nShimmering seas
\nFlecked with light of
\nAnother day.
\nThe white on blue,
\nGreen and angry grey;
\nCool tingle of wind
\nAnd foaming sea spray.
\nAbove are white wonders,
\nCable and steel,
\nInterrupting the breeze,
\nChasing an ideal –
\nOnward – pounding onward –
\nSteadied by keel.<\/p>\n
Though the white’s not of canvas
\nNo romance has gone;
\nNor the tree for mast
\nAnd the rope’s not of twine:
\nStill it’s man and the sea,
\nAnd a boat lay between –
\nPounding on.<\/p>\n
Always new horizons;
\nAlways the same.
\nOnly clouds and wind
\nAnd sails change.
\nMyriads of waves
\nCleanse dirt of the mind;
\nThe dirt of experience
\nOf the last land.
\nThe hallmarks of man’s work,
\nDecay, dirt and dust,
\nLie far over the pushpit,
\nAlong with the persons
\nWhom fate introduced,
\nWho are now only memories,
\nBut from whom we learnt . . .<\/p>\n
. . . about:<\/p>\n
Was it them or us then?
\nThough we know it’s us now,
\nFor it helped us prepare
\nFor what lay over the bow:
\nA moment by moment journey
\nThrough time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So far,
Shimmering seas
Flecked with light of
Another day.
The white on blue,
Green and angry grey;
Cool tingle of wind
And foaming sea spray.
Above are white wonders,
Cable and steel,
Interrupting the breeze,
Chasing an ideal –
Onward – pounding onward –
Steadied by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceans","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}