Written this second Tuesday in August
For dVersePoets OpenLinkNight
Prompt of Love
stems in violet hues
rounded curves in glass and shadow
love in waiting
Writing Notes:
I had picked a large collection of summer time flowers and placed them in a clear glass vase of water. Overnight the water had been dyed from the pigments in the flowers. I took several photographs and enlarged them trying to enhance the view of the flower stems. I was surprised to find what looks like a lady in a long dress standing on the right side. This shadow brought me a gift today!
I.
stems in violet hues
rounded curves in glass and shadow
love in waiting
II.
scattered reflections in my day’s sun
examined in close meditation done
to discover questions and to find
answers waiting in mere words
longing to rework the unknown and to be heard
in some melody from the kind
of love that went
to the sidelines and remains now spent
III.
lost love
caring becomes heavy and strained
growing weary of heart break
how do we find our love again
starting over
can’t bear to hear the heavy silences
don’t want to feel the pain
can’t bear the loneliness
even when we are near
love is in waiting
sitting along the sidelines
all you can say is you want
to be left alone
i want to awake to star dust
of a midnight sky
dance in the moonlight
live within joyful moments
even in the full day’s sun
after a lifetime of now broken promises
all my thoughts and feelings collide
I melt into rounded edges
Louise thank you for visiting my blog! I am so glad you enjoyed the poetry. You have it right ~ it truly was from noticing something that I saw and then began thinking and wondering about someone standing there waiting for love to how I felt too. Thanks again especially for taking time to add comment. Always appreciated!
LikeLike
Wow — reading the 'backstory' and then the progression of your three phases of the poem from what is seen to what is felt within — moving and inspiring! thanks so much for sharing.
LikeLike
Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving your comment ~ so very glad you enjoyed my attempts at giving words to my feelings! Thanks!
LikeLike
Amazing progression. Loved it.
LikeLike
Thank you Jackie ~ it indeed was a progression for me something like being pulled more and more inward in my reflections & feelings too. Thank you for visiting my blog and taking the time to comment as well ~. So greatly appreciated!!
LikeLike
Amazing what can turn a sleeping mind to such flowering of emotions…Your poetry here is like a bud opening more and more, revealing the blossomed beauty of your emotions. Lovely!
LikeLike
glad i popped back over…what an interesting transformation this has taken since i read the first one….very much different but….very cool that water was colored by the flowers…
LikeLike
Good afternoon Louise! Thank you for visiting my blog today. Also, thanks for such kind words. I am glad you enjoyed my attempt at a haiku poem. I find that I really use my twitter link as my notebook or daily muse — just trying to capture moments during my day before they are gone.
LikeLike
Hi Kathleen, dear friend thank you for stopping by my blog. And thanks for sharing with me always help give my day a smile! The three writings move from thoughts to deeper reflections on how I was feeling. It was such a surprise to find 'the lady' in the vase's reflections where there was nothing before! Curious how light and shadow plays throughout our days. Thanks again!
LikeLike
Hi Claudia and thanks for visiting today! It is so very true that one small insight or observation can lead you down different paths. If find that just pausing can allowing you to move inward to your thoughts and feelings. Really it is incredible how our minds work!
And thanks, I too hope for love's return!
LikeLike
Thank you Brian for visiting and commenting on my blog. You are a wonderful friend and thanks for always sharing with me.
Love is indeed mysterious, I struggle with showing my love.
LikeLike
Beautiful writing..I love seeing the progression through all three..love the haiku:)
LikeLike
Joanie – I loved the progression of feeling thru the three writings. A glimpse of your thoughts! K
LikeLike
it is interesting where this took you.. sometimes it needs just small things to get our mind rolling…and yeah..hope you find that love again…
LikeLike
love is mysterious thing…something we sometimes dont glimpse fully but only a little…much like the images in your verse…
LikeLike