Daily Meditation: Seaside

Daily Meditation: Seaside

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Today's meditation features a poem by American writer William Carlos Williams. 'Flowers by the Sea' is a meditation on the gentle restlessness conjured by the sea -- and which some may be feeling in themselves as summer approaches.

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Flowers by the Sea by William Carlos Williams

When over the flowery, sharp pasture’s
edge, unseen, the salt ocean

lifts its form—chicory and daisies
tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone

but color and the movement—or the shape
perhaps—of restlessness, whereas

the sea is circled and sways
peacefully upon its plantlike stem

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