Breaching Vastness

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The text describes a profound and awe-inspiring experience of witnessing a breaching whale, accompanied by a poetic expression and a complementary audio recording.

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The webpage content showcases a poem titled "Breaching Vastness" by Erika Burkhalter, which captures the emotional and sensory experience of observing a whale breaching the ocean's surface. The poem emphasizes the vastness of nature and the awe it inspires, using vivid imagery of the whale's leap, the sunlight, and the ocean's waves. The poem is accompanied by a photograph of a breaching whale and an audio recording for an immersive experience. The author, Erika Burkhalter, is introduced as a yogi, neurophilosopher, photographer, and nature lover. The page also provides links to other related stories and encourages readers to subscribe to the author's stories or become a Medium member.

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The webpage features a poem titled "Breaching Vastness" by Erika Burkhalter.
The poem describes the awe-inspiring moment of witnessing a breaching whale.
The poem uses vivid imagery of the whale, sunlight, waves, and the ocean.
The poem is accompanied by a photograph and an audio recording.
Erika Burkhalter is introduced as a yogi, neurophilosopher, photographer, and nature lover.
Links to other related stories are provided.
Readers are encouraged to subscribe to the author's stories or become a Medium member.

A Poem of a Whale and a Moment of Awe

A Full Breach. Photo ©Erika Burkhalter

Some experiences in life can never be recreated,

like being enveloped in awe in that moment when a breaching whale leaves the silvered sea, leaping into the realm of sky and pinkening air and we, two humans, felt so small amidst the pulsation of the vastness of it all that we forgot to breath

until that whale came crashing down,

splashing her weight in water, an infinite number of crystalline droplets, high into the slant of sunlight before she disappeared beneath the churning chaos.

And all around us, the waves melted into the jungle, frosted fingers of foam mingling with sun-bleached sand, remnants of oceanic bones finding life once more on the sugared shore shifting beneath our feet, our toes sinking deeply into the remnants of time.

And we knew that this moment, this encapsulation of breath and wonder, could never be repeated.

Erika Burkhalter is a yogi, neurophilosopher, cat-mom, photographer, and lover of travel and nature, spreading her love and amazement for Mother Earth’s glories, one photo, poem or story at a time. (MS Neuropsychology, MA Yoga Studies).

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