The Ocean of Light overcomes the ocean of darkness.
SeaQuaker is a writing website of Daniel Eugene Wilcox a poet and fiction writer. Poetry is creative play in the imagination--a way of seeing, a way of feeling, a way of being; re-envisioning our perception, to experience images and moods and truths via the deep structure of far-reaching words. Browse through his poems, short stories, and philosophical musings to see the world, life, and the cosmos from a different perspective.
Daniel earned his degree in Creative Writing from Cal State University, Long Beach. He is a former activist, literature teacher, and roving wanderer, from Montana to the Middle East, casting lines out upon the turbulent waters and far shores of this troubled world.
Find truthful meaning in the present by ruminating on the historical past in "Joan of Arc" at The Camel Saloon and "Rock the Nations as a Cradle" at The New Verse News.
Travel over to hotmetalpress.net to experience "Cape May Light," "The Mystery of Modern Life," "Ventura Beach," "Markers," and "Missouri's 'Job'." Meet a dog and a ranch hand in the dead of winter in "One Dog Night" at Unlikely Stories.
Then journey to the Summer of Love in "earstopper" in The Write Room. Check out "Our Indy Pacer," a dog story on the freeway of life. And "Cast Out" your poems upon the waters.
Diminuendo Press published Daniel's first book of poetry, Dark Energy. The volume of experiential poems is available from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, local bookstores, etc. From the website: "Daniel's poetry explores the depths of the human mind and soul."
Experience the lament against total war, "The Wind Blew Away the Young," at Mad Swirl.com. Weep for the innocent in "Caught in the Act in Iraq." Or be shocked into action by his Christmas poem, "To Whom It Does Not Concern," on the website, protestpoems.org and a reflection on time and history in "Of Things Past and Present" at Static Movement.
Daniel has a deep passion for peacemaking, ethics, and human rights. Check out his poem "The Last Libation" about alcohol, the American Indian, and being human at Sentinel Poetry Online.
Other poems by Daniel have been published in Eunoia Review, Decades Review, Widowmoon Press, amphibi.us, Midwest Literary Magazine, The New Verse News, Poetry Super Highway, Three Line Poetry, Media Virus Magazine, Western Friend Magazine, A Handful of Stones, The Camel Saloon, Widowmoon Press, Liturgical Credo, Yes, Poetry, Four and Twenty, Front Porch Review, Gloom Cupboard, The Clockwise Cat, Rubber Lemon, The Medulla Review, Structo, vox poetica, Willows Wept Review, Haiku Journal, Lyrical Passion Poetry, The Greensilk Journal, Word Riot, Moria,, The Centrifulgal Eye,, Lunarosity,, Hanging Moss Journal, The New Verse News,, ocean diamond,, The Writer's Eye, Mad Swirl, Abandoned Towers, The Scruffy Dog Review, Oak Bend Review, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Cherry Blossom Review,, The Houston Literary Review,, Lucid Rhythms,, Identity Theory,, Halfway Down the Stairs,, Right Hand Pointing, Frame Lines, The Externalist,,The Driftwood Review,, Flutter Poetry Journal,, Frostwriting,, Words-Myth, Ink Sweat & Tears, Erbacce Print Journal, Sentinel Poetry Online, The November 3rd Club, Word Catalyst, the poetry warrior, Mississippi Crow Magazine,, The Cerebral Catalyst, Anthrozine, Ink, Sweat, & Tears, Stylus Poetry Journal, Idlewheel Literary Friction, The Indite Circle, The Rogue Poetry Journal, The WriteSideUp, La Fenetre International Literary Magazine, The Other Side Magazine, The Bicycle Review, A Handful of Stones, The Copperfield Review, Unfettered Verse, Leaf Garden, Calliope Nerve, Static Movement, Counterexample Poetics, outwardlink.net, protestpoems.org, Writer's Ink, The Recusant, Full of Crow, The Shine Journal, Danse Macabre, Clutching at Straws, etc.
These previously published poems have been collected into four other large volumes of poetry: Selah Poems, Psalms, Yawps, and Howls, and Mined* Tailings. A fifth tome, tentatively titled Last Things, is still sparking out from his mind to the screen right now;-). He started a second novel, a suspense thriller called An Eye for a Beheading, but currently it is in pause mode.
For a slightly different take on Daniel's writing, check out his newest website, named after his second volume of poetry, http://www.psalmsyawpshowls.com
Daniel resides on the central coast of California with his mystery-loving wife and a hyper-cat named Fizzy. Besides writing, he reads a lot, shoots photography, and finds time to exercise. He's an old backpacker who in the past hiked up the two tallest peaks in Arizona and California, (to the top of Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas), and down into the bottom of the Grand Canyon on many of its South Rim trails; but now he hikes into his computer room each day in the fall of his years:-). Well, it's not quite that bad; Daniel swims regularly and has hiked with his wife on Kauai, Oregon, and in Olympia National Park in Washington State. And now as he ages but doesn't petrify, he day-walks around locally on the Central Coast.
*Reference of the Site Logo:
I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. In that also, I saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openings...
George Fox
Check out Daniel's personal blog of musings on Ultimate Reality, ethics, religion and social history, literature, media, and art: http://infiniteoceanoflightandlove.blogspot.com/ Experience a few of his poems and stories at Lightwaveseeker: http://lightwaveseeker.weebly.com/
Daniel Eugene Wilcox
