<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577189" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Man By The Sea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He who lived in the house by the sea, <br>had withdrawn... utterly. <br>He who shuttered windows tightly, <br>and locked the door so solidly <br>against the wind from the sea, <br>the wild, wind from the sea. <br>had slumped to easy chair complacency, <br>stagnant with responsibility, <br>and walled with predictability <br>until he yearned to be free- <br>to open all triumphantly. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He who worked the proper hours, <br>sheltered from the distant powers <br>of sun and cold and monsoon showers <br>cried “Enough, ” and opened windows wide <br>To feel the sea wind riding a rising tide, <br>To hear mermaids sing their enchanted melody, <br>To watch gulls dip and glide above a foaming sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was my life a patterned mediocrity, <br>and is this giddy freedom my insanity? <br>He screamed to the wind from off the waves, <br>and broke each window that made men slaves. <br>“Too many rooms, ” he cried, “too many confusions— <br>Expectations, exasperations, society’s illusions. <br>“I want to write love songs and swim the deep blue sea, <br>I want to ride a dophin’s back, and to mermaids sing my poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dennis+Lambert">Dennis Lambert</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577189" data-title="The Man By The Sea de Dennis Lambert" data-description="He who lived in the house by the sea, had withdrawn... utterly. He who shuttered windows tightly, and locked the door so solidly against the wind from the sea, the wild, wind from the sea. had slumped to easy chair complacency, stagnant wit..."></div> </div> </div>

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