LIGHTHOUSE

Poetry from the Northern Pacific Ocean

Flashing in the roaring black of night, 
whether ships pass by 
matters not. 
The light is always on. 

Ask the ocean, 
the cliff, 
the lighthouse, 
if it bares a message for you. 

Are you guiding away from the rocks, 
or guiding inward to your cove? 

A place of mysteries and wonder, 
tourists flock, 
but not on days like this. 
Days where rain pours 
and visibility wears the veil of mist...
these are my favorite days to visit you. 

Some shorelines are made for 
physical nakedness and sunshine, 
but this one requests 
a nakedness of the soul and mind. 

If you stand on the waters edge, 
close your eyes, 
and tilt your head up, 
the rain and negative ions 
baptize. 

I came here with him when we were kids. 
We took shelter from a storm in this cove. 
We stood exactly where I write from today, 
20 years later,
in wonder and awe. 

Out here, 
in reverence of God’s Creation, 
mantras, sacred chants, 
are all I can think of 
to give. 

Spontaneity
is the proper use of impulse. 
It turned a routine Sunday morning 
into a solo trip to see you. 

When I die, 
scatter my ashes in the cyan silver ethers 
of the Northern Pacific Ocean. 
But the time for that is not yet. 
I want to be free enough 
and brave enough
to truly live,
first. 

The essence of what I seek 
is Freedom’s flow. 
A routine morning coffee run
turned into an answered impulse. 
I did not question it, 
or wonder it practical. 
I told no one. I just drove. 

I love this. 
I love to fly, discover, roam, 
and write cliffside poetry, 
while gazing upon living metaphor. 

My view while writing this

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