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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424181" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sea has Many Moods</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">poetry in progress</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sea has many moods<br>you need more than one <br>canvas to paint them all<br>and an imagination cresting<br>like waves sweeping onto shores</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sea has many moods<br>it presents dawn with <br>streaks of luminous hope<br>and slowly breaks through <br>the menacing bleakness of night<br>to give us a new day - <br>a fresh new born, his eyes<br>gleaming like angel and that <br>first cry which opens to us<br>a new terrace for love - a chill <br>that slowly builds into a warmth<br>between us knowing that it <br>is a blessing from beyond <br>- tears or cheers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sea has many moods<br>you need to see them all <br>to portray them on your canvas</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is a hint of melancholy <br>especially after a tempest when the beach<br>is strewn with all things from the <br>bowels of the sea; old coins, <br>broken porcelains, dead little turtles, <br>wine bottles that have crossed continents, <br>one shoe, slipper, sandal like partners<br>lost in war, and shells of all kinds, <br>some shining with a strain of hynotism <br>you wish they have not been torn <br>by the force of the sea<br>bits and pieces of everything here and <br>there to remind us of how life can be<br>as turbulent when the mighty tide works against us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sea has many moods<br>you have to live by one to <br>experience them all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the cheers that brighten up the day<br>when every beach feels like a fresh <br>new summer, another mediterranean<br>the waves gallop like horses on <br>an an emerald to take us to their <br>adventures of mermaids in love, <br>of palace made of beautiful corals, <br>of gold and diamonds in sunken ships, <br>of romances, of aliens, of <br>finding a new angle to life, <br>so that the past is just another <br>wave disappearing on the beach<br>to recharge the self that has been<br>left to vegetate and muffled<br>in the race for survival</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sea has many moods<br>you need more than one canvas <br>to paint them all<br>the tide turns low on some days<br>enabling walks on seabed, and<br>to the next shore, before inch<br>by inch, the tide starts coming in<br>water swirling like a man sipping <br>and blowing onto his tea, inch by inch<br>like a hungry animal, the sea starts to <br>swallow up old territories as its own, <br>and in such haste, rage and chagrin, <br>one hour is all it needs to take it all in<br>there are those who, lost in their fun, <br>forget about the tide and are trapped<br>and swept away forever remaining on the<br>chiling and heartwrenching lost-at-sea list</div><div style="margin:10px 0">walking the seabed is a walk through<br>the backstage of a theatre<br>you see all the theatrics of the sea<br>anemones in a range of red stick <br>their heads out on the sand like a vulgar thing<br>and here and there are broken corals<br>after having served as colourful dancers swaying <br>gracefully and serenading fishes<br>now with faded lustre they surrender to their fate<br>on the sand, a mound here and there<br>in the rhythm of the waves<br>as you walk, a pensive mood envelops you, a peace<br>and a quiet you dont savour on ordinary days by the beach<br>the wind feels like God caressing and whispering<br>to you his story of creation, his joy when everything is over<br>so that you can walk on a seabed to take it all in<br>the sea may be rough but it too, affords a time <br>and a space when it bares all to help you meditate on <br>its enlightened side, something it does not unveil to us <br>unless the tide takes an all about turn to the sea<br>it is a blessing for those who happen to chance<br>upon it and take it to its full advantage</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sea has many moods<br>you have to live by one to see them all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there are one thousand and one creatures<br>who are ever ready to share with you their fun<br>tenants of the white sand, sea, and breeze<br>and an occasional full moon, oh no two moons</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the plovers and starfishes are friends<br>coral fishes sprint to and fro under a branch <br>waiting for the tide to ferry them out<br>mudskippers hop on the tail of the waves<br>like clowns at a circus, a head so huge and two short fins<br>one wonders how they anchor themselves so well at sea<br>little crabs run the lightness of breeze<br>and here and there little holes that gently <br>remind me of the tenants with claws<br>they are all so round these crabs<br>of orange, brown, green, yellow must have <br>been well trained by the divinity of their task<br>a conical shell is a soul in medtiation <br>an ear listening to its own sacred calling<br>seaweeds paint some parts a bright green<br>while an outcast the jellyfish is always <br>a sorry affair, sprawled and helpless<br>its see-through mass of shrunken body <br>transmit a fetid scent no one would love to have<br>children are told not to play around with them<br>as the toxins in the soft textured creature<br>can be just the opposite of its appearance</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>starfishes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like the setting sun over the hill<br>that turn the whole</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like the poet swept with <br>a hope for that <br>one poem that would land <br>on the print to meet all<br>the sea has many moods<br>you have live by her to <br>see them all</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tiong+Chunghoo">John Tiong Chunghoo</a><div class=q>
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the sea has many moods
you need more than one 
canvas to paint them all
and an imagination cresting
like waves sweeping onto shores

the sea has many moods
it presents dawn with 
streaks of luminous hope
and slowly breaks throu..."></div>
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