{"quotes":[{"text":"When the tidal waves wildly behavingMy bare feet on the shore busy savingThe calm warmth leaking out of the sandTo let my heart feel peacefully tanned!","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["bare-feet","barefoot","busy","feel","feeling","feet","heart","ocean","oceanic","oceans","poetry","sand","save","sea","seashore","shore","shores","tanned","tanning","tidal","tidal-wave","tidal-waves","warm","warmth","waves","wild"],"id":26441,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.","author":"Amy Neftzger","tags":["change","changes","gift-of-time","life","life-lessons","loss","ocean","ocean-of-time","shore","time","wave","waves"],"id":30927,"author_id":"Amy+Neftzger"},{"text":"The sea loved the moonWhen she was supposed to love the shore.The moon knewAnd hence made his intentions known. That she should love the shoreWho was destined for her.Yet his protests seemed weak. And even when he pushed her towards the shore-She always retreated back.To want, to need, to love the moonFor all she's worth.Everyone said, it wasn't meant to happen.Yet, the Tsunami rose that night for their union.","author":"Saiber","tags":["flash-fiction","forbidden-love","hope","impossible-love","life","love","love-affair","love-poem","love","love","magic","moon","nature","night","passion","poem","poetry","rebel","relationships","romance","romantic","saiber","sea","shore","stardust-and-sheets","story","tsunami"],"id":57606,"author_id":"Saiber"},{"text":"My mother always wanted to live near the water,' she said. 'She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.","author":"Megan Miranda","tags":["africa","beautiful","coast","connect","connection","contact","country","death","distance","distances","foot","girl","inspirational","knowing","lake","linking","links","living","maine","mom","mother","mum","near","ocean","opposite","oppressive","proximity","relationship","sad","sea","shore","sides","thinking","thoughts","toe","together","true","truth","water","wisdom","wise","world"],"id":58703,"author_id":"Megan+Miranda"},{"text":"Had I told the seaWhat I felt for you,It would have left its shores,Its shells,Its fish,And followed me.","author":"نزار قباني","tags":["feelings","fish","love","sea","shore"],"id":64592,"author_id":"%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1+%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A"},{"text":"Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.","author":"Félix J. Palma","tags":["birth","river","shore","time"],"id":115619,"author_id":"F%C3%A9lix+J.+Palma"},{"text":"White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like white flakes. Rain squalls blow past like gray slanting sails, and blue gaps open in the sky. The air brightens.\tA cold silvery evening. The moon is overhead, and down below, in the water; and all around it-a wide frame of old, hammered, scaly silver. Etched on the silver-silent black fishing boats, tiny black needles of masts, little black men casting invisible lines into the silver. And the only sounds are the occasional plashing of an oar, the creaking of an oarlock, the springlike leap and flip-flop of a fish. ('The North').","author":"Yevgeny Zamyatin","tags":["beach","boats","moon","night","shore","storm"],"id":142359,"author_id":"Yevgeny+Zamyatin"},{"text":"A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep blue footsteps on my glowing beach of soul, and no matter how many times tides wash the golden sand anew, your prints can never be erased. Each one a shining star in my quiet Universe...","author":"Oksana Rus","tags":["art","artist","beach","blue","deep-blue","erase","escape","face","finally","footstep","found","galaxy","glow","glowing","god","golden","grain","groove","healing","hidden","hide","lagoon","left","message","mystery","need","ocean","oksana-rus","path","poem","print","red","road","sea","secret","shining","shore","silence","silent","sky","soul","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","star","stars","story","time","trail","universe","velvet","violet","walk","welcome"],"id":142759,"author_id":"Oksana+Rus"},{"text":"Without Psychological Evolution there cannot be any form of revolution. The self is constantly changing. Be involved, be evolved, be revolutionized as lucent and fresh as the new wave hitting at the shore. Become the Sea of Changes. It starts from within.","author":"Grigoris Deoudis","tags":["changing","evolution","lucent","psychological","revolution","sea-of-change","self","shore","within"],"id":164427,"author_id":"Grigoris+Deoudis"},{"text":"And nothing can be more captivating than the waves hitting the shore.","author":"shivangi lavaniya","tags":["captivating","hitting","nothing","shore","waves"],"id":181628,"author_id":"shivangi+lavaniya"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}