One Goes to the Sea

By Joan Myles

What is it about poetry that so readily connects readers with their Spiritual selves? And is it possible to focus these expanded faculties of perception beyond the page--intentionally, inward?

One Goes to the Sea is a collection of the poet's waking and sleeping flights of fancy, her dream journal sketched poetically and visually illustrated by her daughter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joan Myles
• Release date: Nov 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005319137

Joan Myles

Joan Myles has always been a child of Wonder as well as a spiritual seeker. When she lost her sight at the age of 12, these qualities and writing poetry saved her from despair.Joan earned a B.A. in Education, a Master’s in Jewish Studies. She married, raised four lively children, worked as a Rehabilitation Teacher, and taught Hebrew and Judaics for over 15 years.Her first book of poetry, One With Willows, vividly expresses Joan’s child-like joy. She considers her poems to be a kind of footpath for readers, an opening into that place of delight, an invitation to awaken childlike wonder for themselves.Joan’s words also reveal the invisible link between one human being and another, between humans and Nature, between the physical realm and the Spiritual. The idea of the Oneness of Creation flows through her work, the understanding of living in the world as a journey of discovery, of stepping into and between the various layers and levels of existence. Joan’s latest collection, One Glittering Wing, represents this kind of journey, specifically through her year long passage from the deep pain of her mother’s death toward reconciliation with Life.Joan currently lives in Oregon with her best friend, who also happens to be her husband.You can contact her at http://www.jewniquelymyself.com

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Preface

What is it about poetry that so readily connects readers with their spiritual selves?

Is it the access it provides to imagination? Is it the use of metaphor and simile that enables us to think outside the physical box? Is it the expansive qualities of mind that such modes of thinking enliven?

And is it possible to focus these expanded faculties of perception beyond the page—intentionally, inward? Might we in this way learn to more fully appreciate flights of fancy and dreams? Might we gain deeper insights into ourselves and others, insights which the rational mind is often unequipped to facilitate? Might we even awaken from the sleep-walking of uninspired lives to become more fully attuned to the Wonder of Oneness, to the Love which is Life?

Poetry, of course, is not psychology or religion. But learning to think poetically may liberate one’s thoughts from rigid patterns and habits. Then, perhaps Silence will find the way inside.

Silence, whose sweet Presence is the unfolding of All we are, of All that Is.

The following are poetic sketches and visual interpretations of my own such