Sea Story...a longing

"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea,

whether it is to sail or to watch,

we are going back from whence we came." 

~John Kennedy~

 

Between Sea and Shore

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I've never lived by the sea really - close a few times - able to get to a beach on a day's drive,
but the sea fascinates me. Its power, its moods, its vastness...are somehow an endless source of inspiration to me in both my writing and my art. I think of an ocean in a storm and I'm reminded of the storms that life can bring to us. I see a lighthouse and I know that there is somewhere -
in a friend's heart, a lover's touch a light to guide me through. I think of the journey each of us is on...our own personal quest for peace, for truth, for wholeness...the journey of self-discovery -and it takes me to the sea.  

 

BETWEEN SEA AND SHORE

A late summer afternoon at the Cape,
sweet sounds abound - a gentle lullaby
of sea grasses sighing in an onshore breeze,
the slight swell of an incoming wavelet
spilling happily over ageless small stones,
little pebbles tumbling one over the other,
their gentle clattering friction masked by
the resonance of the surge as it splashes
into this quiet cove onto this shingled beach.
Wading out, I let the wave embrace my feet,
hearing against my legs the slight swash
of an ebbing tide and listen in my silence for
the softest shushing of a withdrawing wave
whispering its secrets to the sand, softly
planting goodbye kisses, wet and sloppy,
on a curved shoreline of shimmering stones.
What peace it is to stand here and be witness
to this eternal love between sea and shore.  

                                    © Lianne Schneider 2013         

 

          

What will your verse be???

“Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.” Frank Crane

Mighty Niagara

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The new IPad Air commercial uses this beautiful speech from the 1989s movie, Dead Poets’ Society –  

"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering--these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love--these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, 'O me, O life of the questions of these recurring. Of the endless trains of the faithless. Of cities filled with the foolish. What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: that you are here. That life exists and identity. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.' That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?" 

What will your verse be??

 

Honestly, the question isn’t just for poets or writers…it’s for all of us. We write our verses by the way we live our lives, by “writing” our own story with hope and optimism and not letting others write it for us. It’s called living with integrity – and it’s one of the tasks of a mature adult. The way we live cannot do “violence” to who we are at heart. Is your art, your writing, your life telling everyone who you really are? It’s ancient wisdom, immortalized in Shakespeare’s Hamlet when Polonius says, “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

Never doubt that your art, your writing, your sculpture is a valuable contribution to the human story. You may never achieve fame and fortune with your art but each word you write, each piece you create adds meaning and richness to the world around you. Mark Nepo, describing his search for beauty in the midst of suffering, said, “We need art and poetry to help us express who we are and stay in relationship to what matters.” Further, he eloquently asserts, "Poetry is the unexpected utterance of the soul…the life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred." Each piece you create, creates YOU as the person you are becoming…you alone are in charge of who that is!

 

ANNOUNCING - The opening of a new art gallery -       TRILLIUM GALLERY

                                                                                               228 Main Street, 

                                                                                               Saugerties, NY. 12477

                                                                                               Phone: (845) 332-6525

Trillium Gallery Online is expanding to a physical gallery in the quaint and historic village of Saugerties, NY in the heart of the beautiful Catskill Mountains. The gallery is open to the public beginning Saturday, January 25, 2014 with a grand opening on Saturday, February 15, 2015 beginning at noon. Brilliant art coupled with good food, wine, music and more is the order of the day. No unsolicited art is accepted but you are encouraged to enter an art contest with the theme "Down on Main Street" - winner will have his/her art displayed in the gallery  for one month and will be offered membership in the gallery as well. Please see contest rules at the online site at

www.trilliumgallery.com or email the curator, Maureen Maliha at trillium@post.com for further details.