Quiet Contemplation
September 9, 2008 by hames-1977
I am sitting here. Stranger as I am. Finally, this is the freedom I always wanted. No one obliged me to be here. Just as my whole being in its truest moment. One with the wind and the sea.
I am sitting here. Just letting the blue sky engulf me. As I record each frame of sea images in my memory. I wanted to remember how the tides rush upon the shore. And the feeling of something has been unloaded. Of something that has been there all along and waiting to be found.
I am sitting here. Trying to befriend the seabirds and letting them believe that I am also one of them. Who could fly. And like the sea, I will be always be coming home. No matter how far my sojourns are.
I am sitting here. Without a care. Just breathing within me the solitude of keeping still. Trying to take in the magnitude of the universe and expanding my soul to the depths of the sea. As far as I can see, I will reach them and my spirit will be one with the waves. Silently it rolls, and I am in complete surrender.
I am sitting here. In contentment that any sea, even from far places are connected. No limits. No boundaries. Willingly to go where the wind chooses. In the distance the horizon faded into the sky.
I wanted to be on this same spot, sitting and let me remember that life has to be lived one day at a time. Where tomorrow will take care of itself and what matters is today.
These, in my quiet contemplation, I have known.
Such a calming and soothing contemplation - like a balm to the heart, to the soul - I feel the same calmness and quietude as I read this, Marvin.
You have very gentle writing voice like a genial wind that whisks the heart - it is soothing.
I love the sea, the beach, the sea shore and I have written pieces from its rich inspiration. I feel a certain overflowing of thoughts when I’m in the beach and I surrender to its power as I allow it to possess me writing the songs of the sea in my poetry.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
jeques,
i don’t know why I had such a deep affinity with the sea. like I said, I used to have my many summers in the beaches of Antique. the sea horizon is tranquility to me. yeah, its true, you can hear the song of the sea, and its good for meditation.
once, I am thinking about settling down in Antique, with a simple life. but circumstances would not allow me. and i have to keep this plan wait for a little while.
thank you for sharing your thoughts here. it inspires me to write for more.
best of times,
marvin
Hi Marvin.
Are you from Antique?
If you are, we live in the same island.
I’m from Roxas City.
If you could browse my older posts I have poems with pictures of the Roxas City Beach and Boracay Island ~ I took those picture during my home-coming last January for the funeral of my father.
Though I’m an immigrant here in Chicago, my long term plan is still to come home and stay in our country for good. I plan to live a simple life in a farm or in a beach house where I could paint and write.
But while I’m still here in America, I’ll try my best to find market for my works so I would have stable funds to finance my passion. I need to be practical, and I also need to look ahead and plan the my future.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques