Lightning Bolt – A Quadrille

The sparkle in your eyes
Glints like gold
Touching me with a warm glow
It draws me in like a magnet
Your arresting smile
stops me in my tracks
Rooting me in the ground
I am frozen in place, immobile
What has just happened?


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Christine Bolton, Poetry for Healing
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Punam is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets. Her prompt word tonight is ‘Sparkle’ in honor of Diwali, The Festival of Lights celebrations today in her homeland, India.

A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title.

Published by Christine Bolton

I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

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