Life Is A River

Simple Philosophical thoughts set to pen of page ...

Life Is A River

Written By Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

Copyright © 2023 Marvin Thomas Cox

DBA: Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

All Rights Reserved

All rivers end at the sea

of ceasing to be,

or the lake

of most certain fate.

(Written January 23^rd, 2023)

Reviews

[Patricia Wedel]

Dear Marvin Thomas... I love living by the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Each Season brings Birds with colored feathers... many Bird songs ripple on the Sparkling River.
Your poetry flows at the Rivers edge where Terns and Seagulls fly in Fate-filled Pilgrimages.
Tenderly, Pat

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Thank you, for the very kind words, Patricia

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree Marvin. I have the Clinton River near going to into Lake St. Clair. I believe, all of us are heading to our destine ending. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry and your thoughts.
Coyote

[Betty Hermelee]

I agree with you Marvin.... Life is a river because it moves on in time and finally ends ( at the sea.)..it's fate...lakes cease as many times they flow into a reservoir...
All things in nature must come to an end ( fate) even a tree that temporarily dies without its leaves.... and of course humans their lives in their own unique way until it ends wherever that shall be.
Best, B

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Thank you, Betty, for reading, and for the graciously kind words of insight which you have so accurately shared ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

[Betty Hermelee]

You're very welcome Marvin!
Best, B

[Chris Shaw]

For most of my life I have lived close to the river Thames or marina lakes. I certainly have an affinity with rivers and feel them coursing through my veins. Much of my poetry has been river based. The flow of the river in all seasons and all moods has been a great source of inspiration for me. The river can rage in winter and flood the land or be gentle and soothing in its musicality in summer. I could write so much more Marvin but will leave you with a big thank you. Thank you for this piece of brevity which opens so many doors in my mind.

Chris

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Thank you so very much, Chris, for the very kind and insightful words shared at a time in my life, when Life, itself, often tends to make no sense but of that which I have set to pen of page above ... My thoughts daily held prisoner in contemplating the unanswered whys of why my wife had to die, just at the very moment's attainment of maturity when she and I had finally learned to get along in that textbook fashion of what we were all taught a perfect marriage is supposed to be like, for never either of us been happier at any point in time of our lives before or after choosing (no coercion for my wife was a virgin when we married even after having eloped) to marry one another for Life to soon learn all along the road of the hard way that neither of us knew diddly squat about making a marriage work, except to repetitively hurt one another for all too many years, before, at long last, learning to get along one with the other in no more thoughts of every separating, ever again ... And, on daily meditation's basis, I pondered the questioning thought all we Humans pose as to why so many of us die so young in having what we consider as our whole lives of so many years cheated of us directly ahead, when ever so all to often we find it is a child we are speaking of, or a young adult with what seemed like so many bright and shining years of living yet to be lived, and that for ever so many years to come ... Yet, Life is not fair, in fact, is a B***h for sure and certain, and that proverbial truth that states, "Life is a B***h, and then you die," if much more surreally real in the face of the deaths of those whom we love, than we could ever have imagined ... Then, it hit me: The reality that whether we think or speak of the Life of a child cut short, or the billions of years life of a bright and shining star suddenly grown dim, all lives begin and all lives end, and the outcome is never negotiable: Thus the underlying message of this little piece of piss poor humble Poetry ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

[Chris Shaw]

Thank you for sharing your very touching words. As an outsider all I can say is thank goodness that after years of not getting on both of you found a way to achieve some bliss together. It may seem short in the overall picture, but you achieved what many don’t . Marvin, life is unfair period. We don’t know what we are going to get. We just have to wade through the waters and hope we don’t drown. I have just composed another river poem which I will post later. My life is all about rivers.

Chris