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The website content presents a reflective and poetic exploration of the sea as a metaphor for life's journey, isolation, and the passage of time, with references to artistic works and invitations to further readings on the theme.

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The webpage is a collection of poetic musings centered around the sea, articulated through a series of interconnected poems and reflections. It delves into themes of age, solitude, and the relentless march of time, using the vastness of the ocean as a backdrop. The sea is personified, interacting with the narrator's inner thoughts and experiences, and serves as a canvas for introspection and the expression of wistful emotions. The content also features visual art, with images linked to the poems' themes, and provides links to additional writings, encouraging readers to engage with a broader curation of poetic works.

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  • The sea is portrayed as an entity that evokes a mix of envy and admiration, with its boundless nature symbolizing freedom and isolation simultaneously.
  • The narrator expresses a sense of being adrift in life, subject to the whims of circumstance, much like a vessel without a sail, steering through the 'tangents' of existence.
  • There is a nostalgic yearning for the past, with the sea representing memories and experiences that are forever lost yet remain a part of one's identity.
  • The poems suggest that the sea, with its relentless rhythm and untamed nature, mirrors the internal struggles and the search for meaning in the face of life's uncertainties.
  • The use of language and imagery conveys a deep appreciation for the beauty and power of the ocean, as well as a recognition of its indifference to human concerns.
  • The invitation to subscribe to a newsletter and explore further writings indicates an opinion that the reader's engagement with poetry and art is valuable and should be continued.

Master To No Oceans

Belation’s Cry — Sightseer’s Poems

By the lashing of the Old; The Varnish of the Present; The Gray Of My Smock Coat, I remain Further out to Sea

William-Adolphe Bouguereau — Les Deux Baigneuses

Blue stroking foam

An envy — afloat,

Something unspoken, yet forgotten

Is obeyed to be ever lost —

An Ocean full of tangents

Boundless Surrounds —

The burdens of this body

I-so-see, the filing of its sex

To current and currency —

I pay the rhythm, I’m caught wreck in the nets

This ocean pangs us a sullen

No longer safe for you or for me

For some things, even so little

Are lost, further out to sea;

Further out to sea, for me

Do I dare for her to see me smile?

Feelings like the fledging left in me before —

Further out to sea, she so saw me

All before, my friend —

Boundless posh

Violent is the song

That strides and pounds

The emptying surrounds

Who hurt it; who hurt thee

For a tale, unrevised?

For Cornmeal is never too fine a dish

When one has supple over their entire

Life on the minor grains of sand,

To swine and dine it ever to aye, that is before —

Further-far from me

Anon and anon

Away to its own notion of care and whines —

I am a drastic fop.

I am in service to it as much as it gleams

Service in me, by the bewitching usage of my

Words, in disuse, or to be read, I cannot be heard

For the use is utterly its own, to summit me freely

To that rampaging sea.

Boundless surrounds are the

Casting disaster of to afloat

Without a sail to steer the notes

That flop the turnsole body

On that envious sea —

I am in service to me, as much as the need

Gleams me to be —

As much as is in service,

Belatedly, I cry at the thin stripes

Which deeply caresses my foam,

Wanting not the ill of my shadow —

By that forgetting sand;

And if that isn’t an availing comfort,

How could I marvel, elsewhere?

Slumping to my shores, I’m sure to be sure!

That is where I am gray, to the elementary of my

Blue trousers, abutting the sands

By the roundness of knees.

Bent and merrily, I impart the scene,

Chasing the next imparter of this

Here story.

COME ALONG WITH THE DOCTOR’S NEWSLETTER

Katharine Hepburn — Woman of the Year

A CRY OF WISTFUL NATURES — POEM:

The Curation; Our Publication:

GOODBYE TO WAVES; A CHEEK’S REMARK — POEM:

As ever, Dear Reader.

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