Nautical
The sea is full of wonder… and treasure chests, and anchors and look! There’s a lighthouse. Here are poems to read when you’re far from shore.
7 poems
Book of Genesisby Kei Miller, b. 1978“Until even silent dreams had been allowed”
Gift from the Seaby Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 ~ 2001“The only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom”
Patagoniaby Kate Clanchy, b. 1965“I meant skies all empty aching blue. I meant years. I meant all of them with you.”
The kissby Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 ~ 1941“Love is writing a song in a delicate script, kiss-calligraphy on lips”
The master speedby Robert Frost, 1874 ~ 1963“Once you agree that life is just life forevermore, together, wing to wing and oar to oar”
The Trueloveby David Whyte, b. 1955“You’ve simply had enough of drowning and you want to live and you want to love and you will walk across any territory and any darkness however fluid and however dangerous to take the one hand you know belongs in yours.”
White Writingby Carol Ann Duffy, b. 1955“No poems written to praise you. I write them white.”