Carolyn Chilton Casas - Destiny

The couplets of Carolyn Chilton Casas’ “Destiny” reveal an empowering poetic manifesto of awareness and interconnectedness. Hint’s of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Mary Oliver’s work are at play in the couplets of this poem. “‘Destiny’ weaves identity through natural imagery, connecting personal existence to moon, rain, and wildlife in an exploration of belonging,” Carolyn told The Dewdrop, adding that “Destiny” invites readers into “a contemplative awareness of our place within the living world.”

Destiny

I am the spawn of a crescent moon
rising above the silent hill.

I am a child of rain, fallen
to earth with a predestined plan.

I am an offspring of yesterday
and ancestor of tomorrow,

a part of history’s totality
and infinity’s forever.

From her home in the oaks,
an owl soothes me toward sleep,

crooning the missive, we come
from and return to the one.

I belong to the hawk gliding
gracefully on currents

above my head. I am
the doe’s guiltless fawn,

the pinecone’s pure seed
come to rest on fertile ground.

Over the ocean’s carrying wind,
a seagull distinctly calls my name.

Carolyn Chilton Casas
Carolyn Chilton Casas’ poetry has appeared in journals such as Braided Way, Grateful Living, and One Earth Sangha and in anthologies including The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal, Thin Spaces & Sacred Spaces, and Women in a Golden State. She is a practicing Reiki Master and teacher who explores ways of healing in the articles she writes for energy and wellness magazines in several countries. More of Carolyn’s work can be found on Instagram and Facebook, at www.carolynchiltoncasas.com, and in her newest collection of poetry Under the Same Sky.