Sea Treasures
Aquamarine
(c) by Roger Garland
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SONG OF THE MERMAID QUEEN
As I went down to the coast of Iona and as I looked out upon the turquoise sea,
there on the rocks shining in the clear light was the shimmering form of the mermaid queen.
Her tail was aglow with a thousand rainbows and her silver hair with shells and jewels adorned.
She looked at me with eyes of emeralds and said I am the spirit of the ocean.
I am the mother of mystery.
And you as all humans are born of my children for as you know all life comes from the sea.
Remember my child that the sea is within you and within you the knowledge of all that life can be.
For I am at the heart of your divine destiny.
Oh, great goddess of the ocean, Grandmother of the sea.
You who are the keeper of the ancient mysteries.
I honor you and the wisdom you carry.
I honor the part of you that is in me.
And with that she smiled and vanished beneath the waves. Through her form was gone the light.
I'll think of Iona,
remembering the words of the mermaid queen.
We are all one.
~Lisa Thiel from "Rising of the Pheonix"
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
~William Shakespeare
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High on the rock, above the waves,
Coaxing the sailors to water filled graves,
The siren sings her solo part
Neither the rhythm nor yet the sound
Are the waters in which the bearer is drowned.
As testimony to her art.
She sings far more than a sailor can hear.
And once more with an innocent heart.
Poets and writers desire such skill:
That siren like we work our will
On every reader's ear and heart.
~Jane Yolen
AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
~Dylan Thomas
The Mermaid's Three Wisdom's
1) Have patience, like the sea
2) Move with the rhythm of life around you.
3) Know that all things touch all others, as all life touches the sea.
-Jane Yolen
And when the stream
Which overflowed the soul was passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had left
Deposited upon the silent shore
Of memory images and precious thoughts
That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
~William Wordsworth
There are two ways of spreading light;
To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton
Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Within your heart, keep one still,
Secret spot where dreams may go.
~Louise Driscoll
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
~Anais nin
A soul without a high aim
is like a ship wihtout a rudder.
~Eilleen Caddy
For those who believe, no proof is necessary,
For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
~John & Lyn St. Clair Thomas
Man cannot discover new oceans
Until he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
~Author Unknown
All we see or seem is but a dream
Within a dream.
~Edgar Allen Poe
Be not the slave of your own past-
Plunge into the sublime seas,
Dive deep, and swim far,
So you shall come back
With self-respect,
With new power,
With an advanced experience,
That shall explain and overlook the old.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is...
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love, time is Eternity.
Hours fly, flowers die, new days, new ways, pass by.
Love stays.
~Inscription from a sundial
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