Our Living Sea of Destiny ⁓ (future's glory)

Quatrains: Who knows what destiny enfolds … yet, we can give all we have and believe-in, with hopes and passion our dreams will come true⁓*

    

Our Living Sea of Destiny ~

We each are living reservoirs
designed as such, made to be filled
with whatever this life shall bring,
until our longings have been stilled.
 
So, open wide, receive it all
that sets our hearts and souls aglow,
and when full, look until we've found
the one in whom to overflow.
 
Fill them up with all you've drank
until they flow back into you ...
lifelong rivers ever-merging
into one sea that once was two.
 
Once quiet waters stir and blend
with rising rolling to and fro.
No way to make them two again;
this is the only way they’ll know.
 
At times, their surface still and smooth …
others, a sparkling sunlit rill;
then, tossed with dancing peaks a'churn,
to frothy waves that pound and thrill.
 
Cool breezes blow, soft sunlight warms,
each star a glint 'pon moonlit peaks.
With passion grows each pitch and roll;
while all abounds, a lifetime seeks.
 
Within shall teem and never halt,
like ever-surging waves to shore;
our living sea of destiny ~
will then flow deep … forevermore.

 
Richard W. Jenkins
           ©2015

1st Place Championship Award

Quatrains For The Future Contest

Author's Note

Constructive comments and critique are always welcome! : )

Reviews

[Crimson_ish]

What a beautiful perspective on vastness of the sea! This poetry is as mystical as the forever moving water, I can see the two rivers now colliding, simmering into each other through those passionate waves, what an enchanting way to describe life and love, I am truly inspired and awe-struck!

"We each are living reservoirs
designed as such, made to be filled
with whatever this life shall bring,
until our longings have been stilled."

The beginning, oh I swoon at it!

[Richard🖌]

Thank you, Dear Kajal! : )
You've truly blessed me … heart, mind, and soul!

Warmest hugs to you! ⁓ Richard

[J. J. Nightingale]

"Hearts and Souls Aglow".... THAT speaks to me..

Wonderful expressions..

Jazzy

[Zenovia]

So, open wide, receive it all
that sets our hearts and souls aglow,
and when full, look until we've found
the one in whom to overflow.

Fill them up with all you've drank
until they flow back into you

Mmmmm loved these lines...
And all the above....

[Richard🖌]

As I looked for your review, Zenovia, I was amazed at how many have left comments on this one I did not realize or respond to … unlike me; so, thanks for bringing me back here.

Zenovia,
I'd like to welcome you to the site, thank you sincerely for your friendship and the selection of one of my pieces to read and review.
With such appreciative, effulgent words of love in honoring a verse "and all the above", what more could a warmly blessed bard hope for?

Happy hugs of grateful thanks! ⁓ Richard : )

[Zenovia]

Am glad to be of your help....thanks for warm welcome....
I look forward to exploring more of your creations....(hugs)

[Richard🖌]

A pleasurable joy*

[Solar]

A celebration of life - a fluid, forever flowing the human spirit uncontainable and uncontained appears to be a theme in this accomplished and vibrant poem. Refreshing to read.

[Richard🖌]

Thank you, Poet!
I fully appreciate your praise and expressed appreciation and enjoyment of my poem … they let me know you've connected with this work.

Ther best of days to you! ⁓ Richard

[Beccy]

Beautifully written poem. I always read aloud to myself poetry that I enjoy, and this flowed so very well off the tongue.

Very much enjoyed.


Beccy.

[Richard🖌]

Thank you, Beccy, for your thoughtful and appreciated praise, and for sharing that interesting little look into you … I, too, read poetry aloud, to get the feel for its poetic voice.
I "very much enjoyed" your review, as-well … thanks again, Beccy! ⁓ Richard

[Valentine]

Love the second stanza...the 4th, of fighting but making up. The 5th shows the passion that started the whole dance from the beginning, Very nice write. Valentine

[Richard🖌]

Thank you, Dear Kathie!
The verses you've settled-on are ones I particularly like, too … surprise-surprise! LOL!
Alike minds think great,eh?
OI very much enjoyed your interpretation … thanks again fro the praise, M'Lady!! ⁓ Richard

[David Scott]

Another lovely ballad...
The words sing off the page.
I could visualize each stanza like a slide show.
Hope filled and rich warm overtones. This reads like a full bodied cab drinks...

[Richard🖌]

Thank you, David! : )
It is my pleasure to have shared this work with you, and to have received your thoughtful comments and appreciative praise.

You make sharing a pleasure! ⁓ Richard : )

[Cryingkate]

This reminds me of how songs, poems and writing come to us.
A thought that is mediated in the mind until the heart pours with overflowing, The Overflow spilling into words.
Hmmm.. Gives me a deeper thought about trinity and photons.... Hmmm I'll have to think about that...

[silverwritinggoddess]

So very lovely. It flowed beautifully, like your living sea, with such a soft stirring of the wind. Ah, poetry at its finest!

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

Ahhhh! This is poetry, the truest poetry. It kisses the soul and never lets go. This is beyond beautiful. Thank you, thank you, thank you for caring about the form as much as the content.

[Richard🖌]

We both know (don't we, Linda) that poetry without form is not poetry at all, but smatterings of words upon a page, with no direction, no satiable aim our passions can embrace and ride upon to an ultimate peak.
Good poetry is like making-love, it moves within, stirs, rises to a crescendo that … well, it is personal to each of us, after-all, eh?
Personally, I enjoy and appreciate your take, your passion, the essence of your experience drawn forth and shared … and how very wonderful it is sharing my poetry with You! ⁓ Richard