Poems of the Sea

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This was a fun collection of poems and songs. I also had a lot of fun looking for double entendres, which is all Dr. Mike and Sully‘s fault. It was funny to read a section full of sea shanties after the quarantine social media trend of singing that one. Sadly, the shanty from the social media trend wasn‘t in here, but the one from The Big Bang Theory was.
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GingerAntics If you like water, sea shanties, or that one episode of Dr. Quinn, this is the poetry collection for you!#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie 4y

Chrissyreadit I love listening to Sea Shanties- my favorites are when multiple Tik Tokkers duet them- Amazing ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit there is a whole section of them in this one, but it is pretty short. This collection has so many sections, they‘re all pretty short. 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

This is the poem of my life. Uber Christians like to ask “what is your life verse?” This is my life poem. I feel like this ALL the time. I‘m trying to remember a time I didn‘t feel like I was drowning, but everyone thought I was having a great time.
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

Chrissyreadit That‘s so descriptive emotionally. Are you introverted? Your personality in litsy makes me think of someone taking deep dives and pursuing knowledge. 4y

TheBookHippie I love this descriptively . Very accurate. 4y

CBee I can absolutely relate to this! 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit incredibly so. It‘s so much easier being in a book than going anywhere with strangers. It‘s probably become pathological at this point. 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

This is a nice one... a little reprieve from Melville‘s meandering...wandering...never...bloody...ending... This is a nice one.
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie I like this one! 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I had to read this one a couple of times just to get the feel of it. There is just something about it. I still can‘t quite put my finger on it, like it‘s just out it reach. 4y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics Reminds me of self, ones spirit. 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

Well this obviously isn‘t about the ocean. It went up her dress, past her belt, up her bodice... the sea withdrew. Riiiiight! Dr. Mike isn‘t going to like this one at all. She would be absolutely appalled that a woman, properly bred in Massachusetts (just like her), wrote this. #NotAboutTheOcean #PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean #EmilyDickinson @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

GingerAntics Just saying, Emily had needs!!! And “the ocean” fulfilled those needs!!! 🤣😂🤣 4y

TheBookHippie 🌊🌊👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤣 4y

CBee 😂😂😂 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

This one just might be about the ocean, even though it is Whitman. It does mention sea creatures. I‘m sure @TheBookHippie and @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick can point out the sex, though.
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit

GingerAntics Maybe it‘s not really lettuce. Maybe it‘s “lettuce.” 😂 4y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I think this one really is just about the ocean. 4y

TheBookHippie Ha ocean for this one awareness of other worlds not just this one 4y

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CBee I must look up this hairy sea leopard 🧐 4y

GingerAntics @CBee that one is weird. What did he mean by that? 4y

CBee @GingerAntics the only animal I‘ve found thus far is a leopard seal. When you look up “hairy sea leopard,” Whitman‘s poem is in the search results ♥️ 4y

GingerAntics @CBee so he‘s just calling things like he sees them. Maybe he didn‘t know what it was called, or it didn‘t fit what he was going for. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics seems like it. I think hairy sea leopard fits better, and is more interesting anyway. 4y

GingerAntics @CBee it certainly got us thinking. 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

OH MY GOD!!! This was, of course, on Big Bang Theory. 😂🤣😂 I wasn‘t expecting to find it in here. The verses they sing on the show aren‘t in this book, but at least I knew the tune to this one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTwPNoU7Aw
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie #SeaShanty #BlowTheManDown #BigBangTheory #Sheldon #Penny #PennyBlossoms

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

This one took some doing to be able to post the entire poem, but I liked it so much I had to. #PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie #SirHumphreyGilbert #HenryWadsworthLongfellow

TheBookHippie Longfellow 🤍 I own all his poems in fact the library was purging a bunch of his books so I took them !!! 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie brilliant!!! 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

This is a lovely visual to head into bed with...gently rocking with the waves.
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

This really does kind of sound like the sea.
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie Sea. Yes. Ocean no 😂. It is lovely and calming. Everytime someone says ocean I crack up now like a 12 year old 😂😳🌊🤦🏽‍♀️💀 blame it on Litsy 😝 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I‘d say sorry, but I‘m glad I‘m not the only one now. 😂🤣😂 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

I love how Lawrence has captured the connection between the ocean and humanity here.
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie #DHLawrence

TheBookHippie One of my favorite authors that I‘ve read everything they‘ve written 🤍 it‘s so lovely 4y

Chrissyreadit Im not sure how I feel about this one. 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie really? I can see why. There is just something about this poem that I love. 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit I ended up reading parts of it a couple times to really get a feel for it. I can see where you‘re coming from. 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

HERE IS AN IMAGINED DOUBLE ENTENDRE ALREADY!!! Now taking votes: about the ocean or not?! 😂🤣😂
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie #AlgernonCharlesSwinburne

TheBookHippie Gah it‘s so good 🌊🌊🌊🌊 4y

Chrissyreadit I like this one! It must be about sleep... or suds..... or something 🤣🙌 4y

CBee Hmmmmmm 🧐😂 4y

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GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit SUDS!!! 🤣😂🤣 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie @CBee 😂🤣😂 4y

TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit oh my lort SUDS 😳 4y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick This is one of those poems my 9th grade English teacher would assign for us to analyze and I'd insist it was about sex. To be fair, I said they were all about sex just to get a rise ot of her. Eventually she picked one just for me! 🤣 4y

GingerAntics @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 🤣😂🤣 was the one she picked just for your really about sex?! See, I knew this was about sex. See, it‘s not about the ocean at all, @TheBookHippie @CBee @Chrissyreadit I KNEW IT!!! 😂🤣😂 4y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Flowery language & innuendo. Couldn't tell you what poem it was though! 🤣🤣🤣 Stupid failed memory. 4y

GingerAntics @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 🤣😂🤣oh my god I love that description. 4y

CBee @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick NICE 😂😂😂 4y

TheBookHippie It‘s always about sex. Always. 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie so your vote is that they are never talking about the ocean? Cummings was absolutely not talking about driving that car? 😂🤣😂 4y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics Yes. It‘s the hippie in me and Cummings ...definitely 😂 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

This just has a fun, musical feeling to it.
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 #AboutTheOcean @CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie #EmilyDickinson

Chrissyreadit Full disclosure: this inland girl feels the call of the mountains more than the sea. I have no desire to go on a cruise (except to Alaska) and perhaps am intimidated by the power of the ocean. 4y

CBee @Chrissyreadit I‘m the same! I get seasick 😳 I love the ocean but haven‘t ever been on a cruise 🤷‍♀️ 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit @CBee oh I love the ocean, but I have no desire what-so-ever to go on a cruise. I‘m more of a “look at the pretty ocean” and occasional trip to the beach (I‘m too pale for more than that). I like the mountains, too. I loving hiking and that‘s hard to do in the ocean. Oh, I wonder if there is a mountains collection!!! Please hold. 4y

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GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit @CBee I‘m still working on it. I found a collection on fields, meadows, and grasses, but that‘s not quite it. Hm. 4y

Chrissyreadit I like fields meadows and grasses.... 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit I added it to the list. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I‘m down for anything! And I am a member of the too pale club as well 😂😂 4y

Chrissyreadit @CBee @GingerAntics yup! I am a slathered in 80 SPF wear a hat and still get burned if in the sun for 15 minutes person too. 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit yup! I wore spf 100 when I used to work outside. My forearms are permanently darker/redder/sorta-tanned than the rest of my body. It‘s kind of sad. But now I‘m almost allergic to sun burn. If I get a little on my face, I‘m fine, but if I get it anywhere else, it won‘t heal and I end up at the doctor‘s office, taking steroids to help it heal. 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit they would always give me an IV of saline to make sure I was properly hydrated. If the bag took less than 30 minutes to go in, they‘d do another one. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics wow! I got badly burned like that once. My top lip swelled up to twice its normal size! I always thought it was a fever blister, because I still get them sometimes, but I really wonder if it wasn‘t an allergic reaction 😳 (edited) 4y

GingerAntics @CBee I don‘t know if it‘s an actual allergic reaction or if it‘s something else. I‘ve also started to get hell‘s itch every time I get burned on my upper arms, so I tend to just avoid the sun when possible. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics hell‘s itch? That sounds awful 😳😳😳 4y

GingerAntics @CBee you‘re lucky. It‘s this rare thing that happens where it‘s this painful itch over your sunburn, so your instinct is to itch to elevate the pain, but there‘s sunburn underneath. It‘s kind of like pins and needles. It‘s really annoying. It‘s worst on your back, because you can‘t really do anything. The only way I‘ve found to elevate it is to avoid all lotions and use ice packs to soothe it. It sucks. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics ow!!! I can‘t even imagine 😳 4y

GingerAntics @CBee doctor‘s aren‘t sure what causes some people to get it and most people not to. You may have a greater chance of getting it if you have really sensitive skin anyway, but that‘s not a definite. Paler people obviously are more likely to get it because they‘re more likely to burn, so that‘s no help. There are about as many theories as there are doctors looking into it. It could be a type of allergy. It could be an inflammatory issue. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I have super sensitive skin too 😳😳😳😳 4y

GingerAntics @CBee the one thing they do seem to know is that lidocaine or other numbing agents, even in tiny amounts actually makes it worse. It seems to be some kind of nerve thing, to me, but that could be totally wrong, too. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think that‘s the main hell of it. No one knows why it happens, so no one can prevent it or stop it. You just have to wait it out. As the sun burn goes away, it goes away. 4y

GingerAntics @CBee see, thats where it‘s so odd. You may never have it happen. Chances are you won‘t. So it seems that skin sensitivity isn‘t part of it, because your odds aren‘t any better or worse than anyone else‘s of getting it, but people who do get it, often have sensitive skin. It‘s so weird. Just avoid sun burn and you‘ll never know if whatever crazy switch gets flipped in your skin, or brain, or nerves, or... ??? Alcohol doesn‘t help either. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics it really is weird! I‘d never even heard of it until you told me. I just know that I never want to burn as badly as I did that one time. Super painful and I was so miserable. Totally looked like I‘d been punched in the mouth 😳😳 4y

GingerAntics @CBee that does sound terrible!!! Luckily my face hasn‘t gotten as bad as my back and my arms. Were you laying down on your back or something? 4y

CBee @GingerAntics gosh it‘s been so long ago, but we were in Mexico, and of course I‘d probably had too much to drink. And we were literally out on the beach walking around and I FORGOT sunscreen 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ 4y

CBee @GingerAntics in my defense I think I was like, 19 or 20? 4y

GingerAntics @CBee yup! I was about that age when I got so bad I had to go to the hospital (the first time - I seem to have gotten more sensitive to the sun as I‘ve gotten older). It almost seems like a rite of passage. Ah yes, being young and dumb is dangers when you‘re pale. 🤣😂🤣 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I have too! I used to get so tan as a kid, but then maybe after puberty I guess I just burned 😳 4y

GingerAntics @CBee oh wow, really? I thought tanning was for life. That really bites. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I thought so too 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ I‘m just weird I guess 😂😂 4y

GingerAntics @CBee did you get paler at puberty, too? 4y

CBee @GingerAntics honey I‘m so old I can‘t remember 😂😂 I guess also because I just stopped being outside as much? When I was a kid I was always outside, always swimming, all that fun stuff. I got super shy around 12 or 13..... so that was part of it too. Ah, memories 😂😳 4y

GingerAntics @CBee hm, I never thought of it that way. I used to spend all summer out playing and swimming and having fun. I had one instance of hell‘s itch back then when I got a really bad sunburn. Other than that, I had no problems until I was older and spent most of my time indoors. Hm. I stopped spending so much time outdoors at about that age, too. I never put those two things together before. Now you‘ve really got me thinking. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics just a few theories I‘ve had over the years. Also when I was a kid I was much more comfortable in my own skin - teenage hood changed all of that. I‘ve never quite gotten back to that “love the skin you‘re in” mindset 😕😳 4y

GingerAntics @CBee I‘m not sure I ever had that, but that comes down to how I was raised, I think. I would love to get to that now. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I think it‘s harder when you have it and then lose it? I would love to be that carefree again for sure 😊 4y

GingerAntics @CBee I don‘t remember ever being completely carefree. I‘ve had anxiety as long as I can remember. I would pay large sums of money for carefree for five minutes. Actually, I sort of was carefree for a few days once. I pulled something in my neck and they gave me muscle relaxers. My brain was really quiet when I wanted it to be. It was a hell of a trip. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I get that. I‘ve had anxiety since at least 13 or so. Well, it started as more depression. Anxiety got worse just within the past 10 years..... but I do remember feeling pretty okay with myself as a kiddo. I‘d bottle that feeling and save it for special occasions if I could 😂 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I can‘t even imagine a quiet brain. Sounds amazing *sigh* 4y

GingerAntics @CBee apparently the muscle relaxers they gave me were also a popular anxiety medication for a long time. I could totally see why. Unfortunately, there were huge problems being on them long term, which is why I could never convince anyone to get then to me on a regular basis. I remember thinking “is that what relaxing is like for normal people?” 🤣 I know all about the depression, too. I think I had the anxiety first, and now the depression. 4y

GingerAntics @CBee I was literally thinking just yesterday that the depression has really kicked on the last 10 years. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I‘m sorry you‘ve struggled with it so much. I really do understand. The meds they gave you were probably habit forming maybe? I actually take something like that to sleep at night - I don‘t like it, but it‘s what works right now 🤷‍♀️ 4y

GingerAntics @CBee from what I could tell, that‘s what it was. The stuff I was on for my anxiety was actually horrible to come off of as well. I‘m not sure any of the meds are all that great in that department. It certainly taught me to be more cautious with meds. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I‘ve tried soooo many. The one I‘m on now is okay, I tried switching a couple of months ago and felt like I was losing it. It was awful! 4y

GingerAntics @CBee that‘s the worst feeling! I‘m glad what you‘re on now is working for you. 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy

Perhaps Dr. Mike will prefer these poems. #AboutTheOcean This had to happen next. @TheBookHippie I‘m probably going to be smirking and laughing through this whole book, looking for the tiniest shred of (even imaginary) double entendre. Please let there be some Whitman in here!!! 💚💚💚
#PoemsOfTheSea #EverymansLibrary #poetry #Joetry2021 @CBee @Chrissyreadit #DrQuinnMedicineWoman #Sully #DrQuinn

TheBookHippie 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤍🌊🌊 4y

Chrissyreadit 🤣🤣🤣🤣😍 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie there is an entire section of sea shanties. We‘re about to join this crazy quarantine trend. Who‘s ready?! 😂🤣😂 4y

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CBee Oh hiiiiii Sully 😍 4y

GingerAntics @CBee even all these years later, he‘s still hot!!! 😍😍😍 In fact, he‘s literally still hot. He‘s a silver fox these days. 4y

CBee @GingerAntics I haven‘t even seen a recent pic of him! *scampering off to Google* 😂 4y

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Poems of the Sea | J. D. McClatchy