Love has left this marriage, this house Taking with it my peace of mind Equilibrium shaken Identity robbed Feeling naked Leaving me maligned
The view of future obscured with dense fog I claw my way through not knowing where the path leads Sunlight intermittent Brief and encouraging Only to be snatched away From the remnants of tangled weeds
A cloud of black rain doused the fire in your heart The hatred left to fester slowly eating away at your core You are the victor of this battle Taking no prisoners and you now live alone with your ugliness for ever more
The flicker of movement in the corner of my eye Warm breath on my neck A soft touch against my cheek These things Let me know of your presence
When sadness consumes me or I dissolve in a meltdown the house lights will flash That little bird sitting on my shoulder Whispering in my ear and I know you’ve heard me
These subtle messages of communication Imagined or not give me the strength I need to grow without you for you have gone now to somewhere else across the Universe
She wandered the castle’s battlements every evening Flaxen hair pulled back Tied like a barley stalk Haunted and haunting searching endlessly for the love forever lost to her
From across the water she could be seen as the sun left its pale, yellow light to the grayness of dusk The lady in white A lost soul searching endlessly for poetic justice
Grace at D'Verse Poets is supporting our Poetry Form Ghazalwhich was hosted by Gay Cannon two weeks ago.
A Ghazal is a poem that is made up like an odd numberedchain of couplets, where each couplet is an independentpoem. It should be natural to put a comma at the end ofthe first line. The Ghazal has a refrain of one to threewords that repeat, and an inline rhyme that preceedes therefrain. Lines 1 and 2, then every second line, has thisrefrain and inline rhyme, and the last couplet should referto the authors pen-name…The rhyming scheme is AA bA cA dA eA etc.
Grace is hosting D'Verse Poetics tonight. She has prompted us to use compound words fav red by Dylan Tomas as follows: For this Tuesday Poetics I’m asking you to write a poem using at least FOUR of the hyphenated compound words from the above list. Employ as little or as much of Thomas’ other methodologies too as but most of all, let’s love the words! (Click D'Verse link to see all the hyphenated words) I chose: RINGED-SEA, OWL-LIGHT, SHE-BIRD and TIDE-LOOPED
