Poetry
These poetry pages are designed to celebrate the beauty of the human spirit as expressed in the poetry of water, the study of oceans, and the people who are fascinated with both. I hope they will capture the struggle, the mystery, and the exhilaration that are intrinsic to the expression of human creativity regardless of its form.
I invite you to contribute to this section of the web site. Your contribution could be a favorite piece of prose--funny, sad, profound. It could be a poem, a sea chantey, a small image designed for incorporation into this web site. It need only be about the sea - or rivers, or streams or lakes - it may be something published, or personal, your own, or someone else's, and it need only celebrate the richness and complexity of the human fascination with “bodies’” of water (which I suppose includes each of us, since we are 98% H2O).
You may send your selections to me at jdelaney@u.washington.edu
John Delaney
Chief Scientist
VISIONS11 Poetry
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
These poetry pages are designed to celebrate the beauty of the human spirit as expressed in the poetry of water, the study of oceans, and the peo ...
The Wide Ocean
Monday, August 16, 2010
Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruit of your gifts and destructions, into my hand, I would choose your fa ...
Poseidon At The Point Diner
Monday, August 16, 2010
His face looked like an old part of the expressway,
Worn to rolling pockmarked flatness;
His eyes were seams in the asphalt.
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Once by the Pacific
Monday, August 16, 2010
The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in, And thought of doing something to the shore ...
NIGHT
Monday, August 16, 2010
The cold remote islands And the blue estuaries Where what breathes, breathes The restless wind of the inlets,
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My Sister of the Sea
Monday, August 16, 2010
She travels home over the waves calm or angry passage blue sky or grey it matters not she is at sea ...
Hail Holy Light (excerpt)
Monday, August 16, 2010
HAIL holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,< ...
Fathom and League
Friday, August 06, 2010
Two miles down the sea floor is a skull, the wounded head of a monster - fractured, faulted... ...
It Is Born
Friday, August 06, 2010
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea... ...
Dover Beach
Friday, August 06, 2010
The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits... ...
In Memory Of
Friday, August 06, 2010
I write this in memory of Jack Dymond, who was Professor of Oceanography at Oregon State University for 34 years before his untimely death in 2003. ...
My Heart Soars
Friday, August 06, 2010
The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, speaks to me. ...
Moving Forward
Friday, August 06, 2010
The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
Trees and stones seem more like me each day.
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Bill of Lading
Friday, July 23, 2010
Esquimault Graving Yard. Immense placental Facility labors. Lubbers at loose ends until ...
Pax Geologica
Friday, July 23, 2010
Last night the world's rifts, the ridges that lie under the oceans, entered my dream, seams and wounds of creation that sprea ...
