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On one hand, a major thread of Pacific poetry documents, critiques, and laments the legacy and ongoing impacts of colonialism. When you sit by the ocean and stare out at the sea, you relax your thoughts and senses from sensory overload, enter a state of mindfulness, and are able to think more clearly about your loved ones. Oceans cover more than two thirds of the earth’s surface and contain more than 95% of the earth’s water, and yet their vastness is their least impressive feature.

Nezhukumatathil's work has appeared in Poetry magazine, Ploughshares, FIELD, and American Poetry Review.Many deep short ocean poems throw emphasis on the truth that the ocean aids in the restoration of a person’s physiological, intellectual, and emotional well-being. These poems about the sea remind us that oceans have an impact on our lives and livelihoods of our loved ones, no matter how far off the beach we reside. The ocean gets more wet except the ocean is filled with sweat, sweat from running from all my problems.

Staring down at the shoreline from a cliff, Arnold draws a parallel between the sand and sea and science and religion. We’ve got timeless pieces by renowned poets that encapsulate the grandeur and enigma of the big blue. We invite visitors to explore the DEA in its original form, where they can discover nearly 18 years worth of digital Dickinson archival and scholarly work. You can read as many as you want, and also submit your own poems to share your writings with all our poets, members, and visitors. In these poems, Dickinson does not so much discern anthropocentric lessons from nature but rather creates new forms that account for a non-anthropocentric universe.

What’s more, over 80 percent of the ocean remains unexplored – meaning no one has ever been there or knows what could be living down there.

Ultimately, this poem seems to question whether the sea will indeed “Give up the dead that were in it” (Rev. Ponder the profound connection between life’s fragility and the eternal vastness of the ocean with these verses that weave a captivating tapestry of emotions.Common Mistakes: the word "i" should be capitalized, "u" is not a word, and "im" is spelled "I'm" or "I am". But Parkin’s carrier bag wants no more than “to unpack itself […] / to become once again bustling plankton masses. He is sad, moody, and murmurs to himself, but she says “I see him more with envy than with fear;” because she believes his ignorance provides him bliss.

The line from this expression of the sea’s independence of human desire and of the limits of the human when confronted by the sea would ultimately find its expression in the “undulating Rooms” of Fr. We’ve gathered these ocean poems from a range of sources to help you open your head and soul to the wide unknown. Humans in these poems (and, frequently, birds as well) are enmeshed in a struggle to respond creatively to a context that restricts their agency. Instead, the “singular tooth” of a narwhal “needles you like a compass pointed toward home,” while “the paper nautilus ripple-flashes scarlet and two kinds of violet when it silvers you near. Children must learn about the importance of the ocean to understand why it needs protecting and conserving.

With inquisitive flair, Aimee Nezhukumatathil creates a thorough registry of the earth’s wonderful and terrible magic. The glory of the foreshore is celebrated in Of Sea, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s bestiary of the intertidal zone. Dickinson is using the sea as a metaphor for the (female) speaker’s sensual awakening: note the mermaids, which came out from the basement (the sea’s bed, or the subconscious?