{"id":49587,"date":"2021-01-23T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T12:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=49587"},"modified":"2021-01-23T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T12:27:23","slug":"oceanic-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/01\/oceanic-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"A dolphin meditates out of TAIJI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bright blue sky<br \/>\nA healthy day<br \/>\nExhilaration<br \/>\nOn the way<\/p>\n<p>A calmer sea<br \/>\nThere cannot be<br \/>\nA way to  bring<br \/>\nAnd help me fling<\/p>\n<p>My body into leaps<br \/>\nand bounds<br \/>\nBreaking the surface<br \/>\nFeeling the downs<\/p>\n<p>Fanciful my wishes be<br \/>\nThe azure colour<br \/>\nOn the sea<\/p>\n<p>Into the depths<br \/>\nAnd up again<br \/>\nAn undeniably positive vein<br \/>\nI just feel there is so much<br \/>\nTo gain<\/p>\n<p>Enduring,breathing<br \/>\nMore and more<br \/>\nIt feels positive<br \/>\nto my core<\/p>\n<p>Oblivion is out beyond<br \/>\nWhats yet to come<br \/>\nShould I abscond<\/p>\n<p>To fancy inlets<br \/>\nCoral caves<br \/>\nA frame of mind<br \/>\nThat within me saves<\/p>\n<p>Familial<br \/>\nFortuitously<br \/>\nTo realise<br \/>\nThat such worlds<br \/>\nFor me<\/p>\n<p>The ocean assuming<br \/>\nConnectedness<br \/>\nA keen respect<br \/>\nTo surely stress<\/p>\n<p>The outcome<br \/>\nIn so many ways<br \/>\nAn affiliation<br \/>\nAlways pays<\/p>\n<p>The randomness of sea shell<br \/>\nGames<br \/>\nWithin my thoughts<br \/>\nAlternate claims<\/p>\n<p>Such interaction<br \/>\nEach banging noise<br \/>\nThe hostility<br \/>\nWhere is my poise<\/p>\n<p>Such confrontation<br \/>\nA paradox<br \/>\nBittersweet<br \/>\nClose to the rocks<\/p>\n<p>Disharmony<br \/>\nDeparting from<br \/>\nthe earlier joys<br \/>\nAnd now this bomb<\/p>\n<p>This clashing vile discordant<br \/>\nWay<br \/>\nDrives me nuts<br \/>\nI have to say<\/p>\n<p>What sorcery what jugglery<br \/>\nDemands my sensitivity<br \/>\nSuch godlessness<br \/>\nSuch evil tones<br \/>\nIts as if its shattering<br \/>\nAll my bones<\/p>\n<p>The violating Japanese<br \/>\nIrreverence<br \/>\nIt doth displease<br \/>\nSuch blasphemy<br \/>\nSuch profanation<br \/>\nUnhallowed by its recreation<\/p>\n<p>I must away<br \/>\nSingly alone<br \/>\nGet free of it<br \/>\nBe on my own<\/p>\n<p>Let goodness recover<br \/>\nHonour rules<br \/>\nPick up my tail<br \/>\nSo many fools<\/p>\n<p>Backsliders they<br \/>\nAre drawn away<\/p>\n<p>Such disbelief<br \/>\nLeads unto grief<\/p>\n<p>Look to the sun<br \/>\nAnd feel its heat<br \/>\nFrom the sounds we must retreat<\/p>\n<p>Away from the macabre<br \/>\nBack to the light<br \/>\nWhere our godhead rules<br \/>\nWhere Nirvana\u2019s might<\/p>\n<p>Is Strong again<br \/>\nWhere Peace exists<br \/>\nIn the azure sea born<br \/>\nHeavenly mists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bright blue sky A healthy day Exhilaration On the way A calmer sea There cannot be A way to bring And help me fling My body into leaps and bounds Breaking the surface Feeling the downs Fanciful my wishes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/01\/oceanic-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-dolphin-drive-w-banging-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49587"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49594,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49587\/revisions\/49594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}