Show me your love not with a crown of roses or a bowl of carnations which soon become food for worms once their fragrance dies. Neither give me promises of galaxies and garnets and diamonds. I am no queen and have no use for such treasures that I would have to check in at death’sContinue reading “THE PROOF I WANT”
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LOVE COMES SOFTLY
Love comes softly like a leaf in the wind Have you the time to linger and listen to the whisperings of a heart, waking to the beauty it once only imagined? Have you the time to linger and listen In the simplest gestures, love is speaking. To the beauty it once only imagined, the soulContinue reading “LOVE COMES SOFTLY”
WAITING
I waited for you by the water’s edge when the river was pink with lotus blooms when the wind’s kiss was as soft as your lips on mine would be my heart murmured its awe of you drawing close but only in my dreams ~~~~~ Writing for DVerse’s Quadrille Prompt – MurmurContinue reading “WAITING”
DEAREST
Writing for DVERSE POETS’s PUB’s prompt to write a lai poem and @transatlantic’s wonderwall prompt for this week. Thanks Victoria of DVerse for giving us this prompt. Thanks for dropping by. 🙂
THE ART OF LOVE
Love casts out fear, it has been said but I have never been as scared as when I loved and gave my heart to love’s power and to its art. To what folly have I been ensnared? Alone, I fly free, as a bird leading its wings to paths it dared fly, with no oneContinue reading “THE ART OF LOVE”
PERFECT MATCH
I was told – everyone has a perfect match somewhere like a pot with a missing lid I just had to wait for my match to be found years and years I waited still he did not come I was told – be the best you can be perfect for the one you’re looking forContinue reading “PERFECT MATCH”
YOUR EYES
Do we even see the same person? You see someone beautiful I see one beyond her prime (who kind of looks like a crone). You get mad that I disagree How can you belie those many eyes who have judged her face her person to be less than perfect? She carried the sting of manyContinue reading “YOUR EYES”
MOTHER’S DANCE
Dancing to music playing only in her head until her babe sleeps enveloped in her embrace sanctuary of love and dreams ~~~ Toni hosts Meeting the Bar over at Dverse. Â The Form is Tanka.
THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW HIS FACE
I met him with a luggageful of warnings. “He could be a psycho!” was my friends’ almost unanimous fear when I told them that I would meet the man I met online who happened to be from the other side of the world. After a year of extensive e-mails and expensive phonecalls, we agreed toContinue reading “THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW HIS FACE”
WILL YOU?
This rose has been too long in the sun Her edges are getting dry Gone are her petals’ velvety shine in its stead are the unsightly lines that no doubt say she’s past her prime. Her thorns get sharper as they wither Her fragrance betrays the odor of decay Will she remain the treasured flowerContinue reading “WILL YOU?”
MY WALL 