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U S M C and Epiphany at Sea

By leebythesea11 on January 6, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Every day seventeen veterans die by suicide. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Esler Faulkner waited for “a thousand Japanese soldiers to come across the river and wipe our ass out.” And come they […]

Early Spring, A Shot In The Arm

By leebythesea11 on December 22, 2020 • ( 7 Comments )

“In a way, winter is the real spring-time when inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.” Edna O’Brien, Irish Poet Winter, particularly this winter, can weigh one down—way down. Spring lightens our […]

Presence, And The Silver Sea

By leebythesea11 on November 23, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

I love fog. So when I biked the boards recently, I was pleased to see the pale veil over Long Beach shore. Hundreds of gulls nestled in the sand… …then rose, a […]

Angels In Our Midst…

By leebythesea11 on November 15, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

The ladies exposed themselves to me. I saw them for what they were, stewards of our shore, picking up trash washed in by the tide. Angels, pure white-winged angels strode before me. […]

American Heroes

By leebythesea11 on November 10, 2020 • ( 6 Comments )

Taylor Morris: “As soon as I stepped on it, I knew…Then I heard the blast. I felt the heat. I knew I had lost my legs. As I somersaulted through the air, […]

Neptune Rising

By leebythesea11 on November 7, 2020 • ( 12 Comments )

“And here was Neptune, god of the sea…” I went to the shore one recent day, an offshore storm kept strollers at bay. Surfers will ride a stormy sea. But I saw […]

The Innocents

By leebythesea11 on October 28, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” (Agnes Sligh Turnbull) Do you like poems? There are some I don’t like, too much struggle. Many evoke awe, but we have to […]

Passions, and America

By leebythesea11 on October 22, 2020 • ( 7 Comments )

It was not like shooting fish in a barrel, it was actually, shooting fish—from a barrel. I was a U.S. Marine Corps Cannoneer. We fired 95 lb explosive projectiles about a dozen […]

Life and the Sea

By leebythesea11 on October 14, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

The beach was vast and empty, but for the shorebirds. Both east and west of me, they gathered like tidal pools of fluttering feathers. It was a sparkling October day, about sixty, […]

A Sea Of Love for a Vietnam Vet

By leebythesea11 on October 5, 2020 • ( 27 Comments )

“The earth laughs in flowers” Ralph Waldo Emerson So does Lisa Wong-Esposito. It’s easy to walk and be lost in thought. Too easy. Too many thoughts. And so sad when so much […]

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