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.
Travel within toward the truth and find meaning in this cacophony called Life.
Three collections of Daniel's published poetry are in print--Dark Energy, Psalms, Yawps, and Howls, and selah river. 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.
Ready for the joy of romantic love. Read "Roll Ever Columbia" and "Northeast Night" at cavalcadeofstars.
http://cavalcadeofstars.wordpress.com/
and
"two hands" a romancing of romance at vox poetica. Share the lyric with your sweetheart.
http://poemblog.voxpoetica.com/
Looking for insightful poems on life, social issues, and history. Stop at Dead Snakes: "The Last Libation," Midnight Voyager," The Revolution," and "Ah, Bird Poop Van." (First pub. in Sentinel Online, La Frente, and The Bicycle Review) http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/
What a travail is politics and nationalism! Look at Gaza versus Israel, Afghanistan versus the U.N., etc. Read of the tragic senseless nature of war at The Write Room: "After the Battle" http://www.thewritemag.com/2012/11/after-the-battle/
Doesn't religion sometimes want to make you puke?
This month, another horrific tornado leveled Moore, Oklahoma, killing and injuring many people, and immediately a Calvinist Christian named Joel Taylor claimed it was the "finger of God!"
Some Christian leaders last year claimed that 90 tornadoes which slaughtered humans were commanded by God, that the winds were from Jesus!!!
To read a poem opposing such horrid religion, read "Let's Do the 'Twister'" at The New Verse News. http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2012/03/lets-do-twister.html
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. Read other poems of ethics and passion by Daniel Wilcox at these fine magazines:
Ascent Aspirations, Mad Swirl, Knot Middle Eastern Literary Journal, Mouse Tales Press, The Paradise Review, Ancient Paths Literary Magazine, The Mindful Review, The Camel Saloon, Greensilk Journal, vox poetica, Front Porch Review, Unlikely Stories, Eunoia Review, Enhance Literary and Art Magazine, hotmetalpress.net, Bigger Stones, Decades Review, Lyrical Passion Poetry, 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, Widowmoon Press, Liturgical Credo, Yes, Poetry, Four and Twenty, Gloom Cupboard, The Clockwise Cat, Rubber Lemon, The Medulla Review, Structo, vox poetica, Willows Wept Review, Haiku Journal, Lyrical Passion Poetry, 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, Word Riot,
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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.
Daniel resides on the central coast of California with his wife and a hyper-cat named Fizzy. Besides writing, he reads a lot, shoots photography, and finds time to swim. 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 has hiked with his wife on Kauai, up in Oregon, and in Olympia National Park in Washington State. And now as he ages but doesn't petrify, he takes walks with his wife 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
Also, check out Daniel's newer writing websites at http://www.selahriver.com/, http://buddingzin.weebly.com/, http://lastthings.weebly.com/
and http://www.psalmsyawpshowls.com
His personal blog of musings on Ultimate Reality, ethics, religion and social history, literature, media, and art is at http://infiniteoceanoflightandlove.blogspot.com/ Experience a few of his poems and stories
at Lightwaveseeker: http://lightwaveseeker.weebly.com/
Daniel Eugene Wilcox
