Men and The Goddess

Rosemary and I are on a mini-retreat at the ocean, Rehoboth Beach, DE. This is one of our comfort places; we return often to soak up ocean and beach energy. We enjoy off-seasons when it is quiet. We get recharged here and reconnected as we take time from our busy-ness to BE together.

This came this morning as I was writing, another form of reconnecting with myself:

By the Shore

It is empowering to sit
Here by the open slider
Leading to the balcony
Overlooking the sea
As it continuously
Rolls and roars to the shore,
The heartbeat of Gaia!

I take both strength and solace
From this constancy:

Strength comes from the depth
And breadth of the heaving sea.

Solace comes from soothing rhythm,
Ocean’s deep song of presence.

I am here to hear and feel,
To merge with the deep,
Tuning my own heart-rhythm
To that of the Mother.

I am in the womb:
Wet, nurtured, warm, protected,
At one with inner and outer peace.

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