Reflections in My Life.

Goldfinch60

As I look into the brightening sky

I reflect on my life,

A life nearer its end than its beginning,

A life that has been filled with joy and love.

The joy and love that family can bring,

From parents and siblings.

Parents now on their celestial voyage

Sailing down the Rhine forever,

As they often did in life.

My younger brother

So happy in his life

Now that the shackles of work

Are no longer pulling him down,

As his wife and he travel the world

In their new-found freedom.

 

The wonder of life with my loved one

Together now for so many years,

Our lives so wonderful as our souls combine

Going together as one towards our destiny.

The joy of children and grandchildren

All so talented in their given sphere of life,

Their gifts giving so much pleasure to me,

As they have always done.

 

My life with music.

Music has always been with me,

I cannot remember a time when it was not there.

The glory that the great composers give me,

The emotions they have created within me,

Within my Spirit,

Knowing that their music will be with me,

Be with me to infinity and beyond.

The wonder that is Jazz,

So profound in so many ways,

Bringing trad and modern,

Mainstream and swing in all its guises,

And of course that glory of Jazz,

Cool Jazz,

born that day in forty nine,

When Miles and Chet found that sound,

That sound that talks to me,

That brings calm my life each time I listen to it.

 

These words that I write on the page,

Taking me to a world where troubles cease.

Writing takes me over and reality stops

As words flow from my mind, my soul, my Spirit

Sometimes without thought,

Into the world around me,

This broken world in which we live.

But words and music can cure this world,

All it takes is for people to listen,

To listen not just hear.

Then one day when I look down on the world

From My Spirit travelling the ether,

I will look down

And see all will be good,

All people will be helping each other

The ills of the world perished

And the world will be full of love,

Full of love, laughter and joy.

  • Author: Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: May 16th, 2017 01:29
  • Comment from author about the poem: The happiness of the life I have lived and will live to infinity.
  • Category: Reflection
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  • orchidee

    A fine write. At times we may have a (terrible?) thought, of not wanting to bring a child into the current world, with the state it's in. Yet there's the spiritual dimension to the world too.

    • Goldfinch60

      That Spiritual dimension is always with me and will be there to infinity.

    • orchidee

      Meanwhile, while on the sherry:
      'I reflected back to 1066
      When I made such a blunder
      (Well, they all blames me for it!)
      When I said to Harold, Look up, Sire
      He did - and the outcome was dire'!

    • Fay Slimm.

      A flow of lovely nostalgia in this positive poem on how to look at the world and our life here. An uplifting read.

      • Goldfinch60

        Thank you Fay, much appreciated.

      • swingline

        It sounds like God has blessed you well in this lifetime . I can only begin to imagine how much more you will be blessed in your second lifetime . And I hear God loves music too ! You will be in paradise !

        • Goldfinch60

          Thank you sl, music is for everyone.

        • Goldfinch60

          Thank you Kathy, much appreciated.

        • BRIAN & ANGELA

          Thank ANDY ~ for sharing the satisfaction and contentment of a "Life well lived" ~ AMEN ~ BRIAN

        • WriteBeLight

          Wonderful Goldfinch.



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