{"id":9333,"date":"2019-08-04T11:15:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2019-08-17T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T18:09:13","slug":"at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9333","title":{"rendered":"AT SEA…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are not just talking about the sea here… but also about sitting meditation… or inquiring within… See if you can submerge your \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 into the words…<\/p>\n

Ken is intimately familiar with the sea\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 particularly the South China Sea, having served his country many decades ago, evened or tempered by the shifting horizon\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 levitating into the sky and plumbing the ever-present depths\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I served too, but mostly on the ground, with forays into the hot steamy clouds by helicopter. But IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S THE SEA THAT CALLS ME WITH HIS POEM, having lived by or near its edge, at times, most of my life\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 playing by the sounds of surf and gulls, later life-guarding overseeing the line where sky kisses water\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 sailing in the harbor learning to go indirectly, ‘tacking’…zig-zaging into the wind… walking the beaches at all hours\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 breathing the sea-vapors\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 mesmerized, visioning the jeweled vastness laid out before me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and feeling inward to my deepest dimensions. It becomes easy for me to use \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as metaphor for openness of mind\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 its currents and constant movement as time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 memories as backwash and receding surf\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 granular moments as shifting sands\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 thoughts as fishing for meaning. Born under the sign of Pisces \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcocean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is a powerful presence for me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and perhaps for Ken as well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

AT SEA
\n by Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

First wishes,
\n So easily forgotten
\n Until they stir like fish
\n Just waking up within a dream of the sea,
\n Waves cross overhead,
\n Their weight is the heaving
\nThe moon spells across the shorelines of our lives,<\/p>\n

We are awash with them,
\n Our bodies spill out
\n This way and that,
\n And when we fall,
\n The rush away from stumbling
\nBecomes a path to sudden clarity and ease,
\n The backwash is irresistible,
\n Eyes brighten with laughter,
\n The completed skin
\n Is finally alive,<\/p>\n

Joy is here in the open stillness realm
\nFound between the rolling swells,
\n Simply let it settle out as it will,
\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how you would too
\n If you were the sea,
\nPeaks and further peaks
\n Ease away now
\n As distance vanishes
\n On this rare day,
\n Always present when at sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are not just talking about the sea here… but also about sitting meditation… or inquiring within… See if you can submerge your \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 into the words… Ken is intimately familiar with the sea\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 particularly the South China Sea, having … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,43,42,195,132,115,40],"tags":[43,42,115,40,104],"class_list":["post-9333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-being","category-inquiry","category-intimacy","category-nature","category-opening","category-poetry","tag-being","tag-inquiry","tag-opening","tag-poetry","tag-presence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}