Religious Sea Poems

On this disturbed land, where prophets walked,
between the river and the sea, the Sun rests on the abyss
where peace seems to be impossible.
Is it God's...

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Midst mild and wild tumults like eddy, vortex, swirl, and whirl,
A maelstrom is a summation of curl and twirl and hurl;
Weather and season get amalgamated...

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Styrax staff in hand
Heals the blind and lost at sea
Calling out “Pearls! Pearls!”
Holding the book of secrets
Deep as the ocean’s abyss


Inspired by the text "The...

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Marcion built a ship for all men to enter
Across the never-ending time filled ocean 
He divided the water filled with bitter salt 
From the water...

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Blessed are those hearts pure by water once again
Not water from the sea, lake or oasis
But water from the living fountain of rain
They will see...

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Reborn here now without baggage,                    ...

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Turkish Poetry Translations II

Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s...

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His disciples were at sea in a storm,
when to Jesus they cried out in alarm:
   “The waves are too steep;
   awake...

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Daniel                        ...

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The Rum Runners

Dry was the USA a hundred years ago.
Prohibition just begun, and spirits running low.
Then, to the rescue, fishermen, fresh from the Georges Bank,
Weighed...

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This shallow foreland once populated
by Lowestoft people till in 'fifty three
a storm surging high tide inundated
dwellings lamentably lost to the sea.
Former homes replaced by concrete...

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If those who brought from the East black gold 
   	had listened to the forecast,
they’d have set a different course and saved 
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He said, “Let there be light,”
And then it was done.
He turned on the sun,
And hung the moon and stars out to shine.

He gathered the waters...

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Lord, you turned the wheels of the galaxies,
You know what makes the planets spin.
You set the universe in motion,
And yet, you care for mortal man.

By...

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“Peace, be still!” he said to the furious wind and waves.
Then the storm became a whisper, and the sea obeyed.     ...

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