ocean daxle I watch you from the cliffs about 4 days a week now. It's easy because it's cold. When it gets hot enough I'll tempt you to swallow me up again. It was funny that day, when you tried to pull me under and I fought until I was rescued. That's when I found out he was dying and when I found out I wasn't going to die. 990511 ... daxle the rip tides follow me, I realize now 990628 ... *nicole* beware of the undertoe 990827 ... Carolyn Duncan Or Undertoad, rather. 990916 ... elise i have always grasped the tragic beauty of simply walking into the ocean and never coming back. today, the sea offers its secrets, its blissfully lethean murmurs. the crash and hiss of seashells is no more than the reverberations of the blood pounding through us. now, the sighs of the tides will echo through my veins at last. 991019 ... me? A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. 991111 ... Q There are a lot of stars over the oceans! 000127 ... marjorie Peace is only the whispering of the ocean before the storm where clouds consume and demons form broken towers dangling precariously over webs of construed words they reek of hostility 000214 ... daxle I'm so far away now. Every second apart is sucking my soul. Soul sucking jerk. 000317 ... Terence Out on the ocean i am forever free, away from the lights, I head out to the sea. 000405 ... merrmill to me?- this is not a world made for man. but gills would be cool 000418 ... gregg offers me a home where i can be alone deep blue, my watery eyes look toward darkened skies which happen to be your eyes that cry into mine so the sun and the moon and the earth do nothing but try as we fly away from the mess called "here" 000516 ... Tiffa It scares me, frightened Lost in a wave i see the trident A swift pull on my toes and im under wet cold suffocating my fear turns panic the ocean its the ocean the salt burns my eyes and chokes me Sweet Poseidon for give a child forgive your child she has made so many mistakes take me back and love me ill repent for you The sand suffocates beneath the seas again i follow Take me and ill repent, Father. 000521 ... lisa_is_bionic these tears I've cried I've cried 1000 oceans and I will cry 1000 more if that's what it takes to sail you home Crying, ick. How inherently female. 000526 ... Sexxy Jessy *agrees beyond a doubt with Lisa and the ick thing* 000526 ... MollyGoLightly I don't really think it's inherently female...boys cry all the time... 000526 ... Tiffa but boys have the privilage to and pple look and say "Oh he's just under a lot of stress" girls are expected to cry or they are called insensitive little bitches. I know bc i am one...well so they say. For a guy its liek thier moment of weakness, for a girl its very common. I hate common. 000526 ... Cassandra I used to look at the ocean and see the most beautiful mysterious thing I could ever get close to. Then one day, someone who I will hate forever said to me "look at it, I dont see what's so great, it's just a big puddle." It hasn't been the same since. 000624 ... bownan floating out behind the breakers, no-one around just a big blue sky and big blue ocean... just you and the unseen things swimming below... even the beach looks far away every once in a while bodysurfing on a sweet swell as it rolls past ... my mind is still there now.... shame my body isn't 000703 ... Robert Smith Boys don't cry! 000728 ... moonshine Drowning from the inside out. 000922 ... birdmad "left my soul there down by the sea..." -- morcheeba 000922 ... Barrett wish I was ocean size, no one moves you no one tries 000928 ... tourist Our blood is closely related to ocean water in composition. IT is as if the ocean conspired through evolution to explore the dry spaces, and perhaps return to the stars. 001103 ... deb i long to smell the salt in the air, to feel the fine sand still warm from the day softly move beneath my toes as i walk breezily along the shore, you by my side, taking in the jagged black rocks and the soft white foam that rolls upon them, the gentle lapping waves, the way the moon glimmers on the water 010126 ... jo It is the heart and soul of me the breath and depth of me the strength and link in me to the creator whom once I knew~ 010127 ... dean-bean I like the way the ocean smells. It smells clean. And electric. It is like kinetic energy--something waiting to happen. 010128 ... Paragraph I've never seen the ocean, but who better to see it with? 010312 ... monadh I can remember the last time I swam in the ocean it was 1995 I was mildly intoxicated by everything I consumed and was surrounded by going away so it was supposed to be a celebration but damn my heart felt like there was a hurricane brewing inside it later we stayed up all night watching fire-flies roam about the warm air drinking cider and singing songs of Dylan the sands were in my hair for days I think there is still a few grains left standed in my guitar I couldn't seem to wash away the sea or the sunshine of that day 010312 ... karen I HATE YOU! YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT! YOU STOLE MY FATHER FROM ME! HE DIED BECAUSE OF YOU! HE DIED! HE LEFT THREE CHILDREN AND A WIFE BEHIND JUST BECAUSE YOU DECIDED THAT YOU NEEDED HIM MORE! GOD I HATE YOU! MY SOUL IS SO TORTURED! THERE ARE NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY! MY HEAD IS THROBBING MY CHEEKS ARE COATED WITH A SALTY AFTERMATH MY EYES WILL OPEN NO MORE...A Red River flows as a sign of relief, a celery-like vein-ants on a log possess peanut-butter and raisins no longer. ahh there you are daddy! 010312 ... futility How am I supposed to follow that??? Even now and then I hear it, in the wind, the rain, my dreams. I am a thousand miles from any ocean. Still, it pulls me, like a return to the peace and serenity of my childhood. The heaviness of the salty air, and the crumbling of the sand beneath my toes. I return, and it's as if I have never left. 010519 ... CinnamonGirl I'll cry a thousand oceans if that's what it takes to sail you home 010612 ... unhinged i like to sit by it and watch it. especially when there is a full moon and you can see the white stain of it on the water. i like to stick my toes in it. but when i get immersed to my waist i start to get a little panicy. maybe someday i will be able to dive in. for now i just like to sit near it at night and have a cigarette or two. there is no greater zen. 010612 ... ilovepatsajak swim out past the breakers watch the world die 011116 ... rubydee we touched the pacific i thought it smelled differently than our house on the other coast more kelpish, greener, agaefied... he swam in october, high in washington state i lingered ten toes submerged taking photographs to remember that the day had existed 011127 ... god billy 011128 ... shadow the only place i've ever felt safe in... it's kind of funny... it's my home. 020120 ... chock chock chili you look like the ocean. 020120 ... Tiffa Yup, it's been two years almost to the day now and I'm still trying to get over my fear. I'm doing ok, bought a bathing suit this year in hopes my current (no pun) boyfriend who loves the ocean and every silly grain of salt in it will make me enjoy it, instead of being frightened. Good Luck, Nick. 020503 ... daxle I still need to believe in you I still need to know that you'll never ever give up so how can you ever let my hope turn to despair? tell me you believe it too tell me that you care 020609 ... blown cherry Calm, tranquil and serene. Gently ebbing with a relaxed and soothing quiet. It was everything my head was not. Everything my head desperately needed to be. Everything it became as the pressures of the day welled into tiny oceans in my eyes. I turned up the music to drown out the noise that echoed still in my head, and let the welcoming silvery-blueness flood through my brain, smothering the day. 020715 ... pj if I had a boat, I'd go out on the ocean. and if I had a pony, I'd ride him on my boat. and we could all together, go out on the ocean. Me upon my pony on my boat. 020822 ... destination? your sound is that of magic 020916 ... split droner At the gates of limestone where we might have shared a moment, there is a dying pelican doused in black wax from speaking too softly. Its feathers are like anchovies covered in lint. We, and I mean you and I, have something in common and this dying bird is it; we see its last flaps as a body-piercing. At this stage, we'll impregnate our lungs with the lungs of other animals until the image of the bird is no more. Then the gate will be closed and I will bury my ribcage in a tidepool. 021024 ... starfish lost remembered, though, somehow possible? no. let's cry. let's dance. let's do both. let's go. 030127 ... sgtsaturday.. saturdays sergeant we're lost and wandering deep in the ocean there lies a wave for you... when you hit the ground it's hard to speak but it's who you are a shining star go tell the millions begin! we'll run through the fields, the turning of wheels down with the buildings, worlds on your shoulders climb through the wasteland wait for the sky to remind you these things are true... about the day ~~ from Sunny Day Real Estate 040205 ... frank skies are red, oceans are blue, I stood at the shoreline, and caught a bad flu 040226 ... Eowithien I desperately want to go this summer. Since I was about five or maybe six, we've rented a house out on a Maine beach for a week or two every summer. It used to be a different one every year, but we've been going to the same one for the past five years or so. Its nice. I love that beach. I'm dying to feel salt in my hair and sand in my bathing suit. To not shower for days and have no one be able to tell. :) 040226 ... freeasharold this watery beauty that could be my grave makes me feel so alive 040524 ... kiani still matter and moving Spirt- bound together in Life and Blood perfect order and the purest height of Chaos- merged into the Ocean Flood 041030 ... mourninglight I haven't seen you in so long 041030 ... pete i've only seen the greatest inland sea... 041030 ... kiani Light, shadow and mercury reflected in the shifting sea all the wild things that lived and died Embodied by the rolling tide I stare in to the nightime sea see summer stars thrown back at me all the lives of humanity only light on the primal sea For what is all eternity but light and shadow on the shifting sea? be it starshine in the night or the new dawn rising bright what is it but sea-filtered light and the shadows of seagull flight? 041031 ... tr the ocean is all i am... all. 041218 ... flexible ocean + cachou + talk_show_host = many many memories without love you perish 050101 ... Lady Rhiannon There's a place on Ocean avenue Where I used to sit and talk with you We were both 16 and it felt so right Sleeping all day, staying up all night There's a place on the corner of Cherry Street We would walk on the beach in our bare feet We were both 18 and we felt so right Sleeping all day staying up all night If I could find you now Things would get better We could leave this town and run forever I know somewhere somehow we'll be together Let your waves crash down on me and take me away There's a piece of you that's here with me It's everywhere I go, and everything I see When I sleep I dream and it gets me by I make believe that you're here tonight If I could find you now Things would get better We could leave this town and run forever I know somewhere somehow we'll be together Let your waves crash down on me and take me away I remember the look in your eyes When you told me that this was goodbye You were beggin me not tonight Not here, not now We're looking up at the same night sky We keep pretending the sun will not rise We'll be together for one more night Somewhere, somehow If I could find you now Things would get better We could leave this town and run forever I know somewhere somehow we'll be together Let your waves crash down on me and take me away 050122 ... jordie I lost you in the salty currents of the sea. I lost you in the burning sting of its waves. I lost you in the roiling foam on the trenches. I lost you among the pearly shells deceiving in their beauty. I lost you among the whistling reeds spangling the dunes. I lost you to the sea. 060519 ... f paddle 060520 ... Mike water water everywhere, and lo, the boards did shrink water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.... i dig my toes into the sand the ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue plain i lean against the wind, pretend that i am weightless, and in this moment i am happy happy mother mother ocean, i have heard your call wanted to sail upon your waters since i was three feet tall youve seen it all, youve seen it all watched the men whove rode you switch from sails to steam in you belly you hold the treasure few have ever seen most of them dream, most of them dream 060523 what's it to you? who go blather from