Smooth Sailing

Stormy seas allow us to appreciate the calm.

White hot lightning

Across the sky.

Dark clouds rolling,

Billowing by.

Cold wind blowing.

High rolling waves.

This is the weather

No sailor craves.

Slowly peeking from

A dingy, drab cloud,

The forgotten sun,

Is shining so proud.

The grey skies clear.

Highly unexpected.

Squall now a gust.

Nothing is affected.

The surge reins

To settle and slow,

As the bright warm sun

Continues to glow.

Life!  So, volatile,

And also like the sea!

Huge waves roll,

Then, calm as can be.

Feelings are like

The great salty deep.

They sink until hidden,

Forever to keep.

It's high time to BE,

And quit life's derailing.

Then set a course

For restful smooth sailing.

Reviews

[sette]

yes life can be smooth sailing at times but most of the time turbulent but depends on the person, so maybe the best solution is just to go with the flow.

[A. Kim Spradling]

Sette! You always give the best reviews. I am at the beach now, so I am certainly going with the flow!!! Thank you for your patience with me responding to your review.

[sette]

enjoy the moment

[Pooja Chintamani]

It's fantastic correlation.. The volatile..nd the feelings.. Hidden.. Sink. Supr concurrence with life and words.. Inspiring..

[A. Kim Spradling]

Pooja, sorry for my delay in responding to you, but thank you so much for the review. I sincerely appreciate your kind words.

[The Iron Horseman]

A lovely piece of work with a pleasing message. Well done.

[A. Kim Spradling]

Thank you, Iron!!! Thank you for taking the time to read this one!!!

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you for a good read.

[sette]

yes so true everything should be smooth sailing but sometimes it does not happen so we should always be prepared for the inevitable.

[A. Kim Spradling]

That is why life is so much like the sea. Inevitably there are rough seas! It's all about how you go about sailing into calm waters.

[A. Kim Spradling]

Thank you for your comment.

[emipoemi]

I enjoyed this.....apparently enough to be at a loss of words for how to express my thoughts on it. The progression is intriguing - the way you went deep into the profound on what the storms and calm weather mean. It's good to think how much can you go with it before you can say it's too much.....for you don't want to go little, or else what's the point. Such a contrast is very intriguing and philosophical that it can very well make the readers take a moment to think about it if done well. This is not saying that you didn't play with it enough, but you could ask yourself: "can I play with it more"? "can I go deeper?" Your call, as always, but overall, I much enjoyed this. Very well done! The ending is killer!

("affected"....not "effected")

[A. Kim Spradling]

Ha! I vacillated about the effected and affected thing for a good bit before I published the poem. Good call my friend!!

[A. Kim Spradling]

BTW, are you a teacher?

[emipoemi]

not officially.......but I have been writing for 10 years.....and have been a mentor in training for 4.

[A. Kim Spradling]

I teach 4th grade. I read your tree poem to my students who also have read Joyce Kilmer. They really liked your poem and enjoyed comparing and contrasting it to Joyce Kilmer's poem Trees.

[emipoemi]

Aww...do tell me more (I'd appreciate you let me know before you use my work for a lesson like that....not that it was bad that you did, but it's a) common courtesy, and b) it really gets the spirit of a poet up).

[A. Kim Spradling]

I apologize. It was a impulse the day that I taught. They saw your review of my work and wondered who you were. I told them of your poem and they wanted to see it. So, I let them. They were very appreciative of the poem. Please know they had NOTHING but rave reviews.

[A. Kim Spradling]

I will not read your works for them forward before asking you first.

[emipoemi]

Like I said, it wasn't bad, it's just common courtesy to inform the poet that such a thing is going to happen or has happened. I'm ok with it, and am thrilled that they liked it. Just next time, let me know :)

[A. Kim Spradling]

I will be glad to. I am not the normal teacher. I sometime work on a whim. These whims pay off. This was one of those days. They have mentioned your poem several times. KNOW: I will not read another to them without letting you know first. This is the first time I have ever done so.

[emipoemi]

my poems are their for the entertainment of the public....as long as I know whether and how they're being used for external purposes, I'm be happy. Thanks.

[emipoemi]

whoops.....wrong *there