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
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Sue Vincent's Thursday Write/Photo
FOWC - Poetic
Faded memories
but a place
frequented often
A wrinkle in time
soothes the pang
of guilt
and pain softens
A setting bucolic
dreamy and romantic
Love had flourished
One had roared
in like a lion
and the other
felt nourished
And so it was
One sided love
His, fervent
and passionate
Hers, apathetic
ambivalent,
mostly absent
Disinterest had
driven him away
and her heart broke
She let him slip
through her fingers
thinking only of herself
Another word never spoke
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts
Lion - RDP
Bucolic - WotD
Apathetic - FOWC
Go Dog Go Cafe - A Wrinkle in Time
You are lonely you say, but you are with me
Settling for the status quo, you say, but you are with me
You are not where you want to be
Not alone, but not with me
Enamored with the thought of being with someone
But not with me
You had it once before, you said
But not with me
Is it a dream or a wish that you have?
But never of me
Maybe a desire for someone, anyone
But not for me
Am I a just a convenience? A replacement?
Sorry, that’s not me
I am not what you want
Because I am me
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Image by
Natálie Šteyerová from Pixabay
Grace at D'Verse Poets is supporting our Poetry Form Ghazal which was hosted by Gay Cannon two weeks ago. A Ghazal is a poem that is made up like an odd numbered chain of couplets, where each couplet is an independent poem. It should be natural to put a comma at the end of the first line. The Ghazal has a refrain of one to three words that repeat, and an inline rhyme that preceedes the refrain. Lines 1 and 2, then every second line, has this refrain and inline rhyme, and the last couplet should refer to the authors pen-name… The rhyming scheme is AA bA cA dA eA etc.
I allow my mind to drift
wherever it may go
Closing my eyes
I see the reflection
of this sad, humdrum life
and let my feelings flow
Once passionate
caring for each other
Two peas in a pod
Connected at the hip
One is down, the other
expected to smother
Duty becomes labor
and labor is now slavery
When the love turns inward
selfishness rules
The other become faceless
There’s no room for bravery
Where does this go
and can it ever be saved
A one-sided marriage
One a doormat on which
the other walks
Or a war that will be waged
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Image by Karen Smits from Pixabay
Word Prompts
Drift
Humdrum
Reflection
Wager
D'Verse Open Link Night hosted by Mish
The wind tousled her hair
as she stood at the empty dock
A she-bird in exotic plumage
Gazing at the shrinking ferry
as it sailed around the rock
The tide-looped harbor
now void of vessel
Empty like her heart
cold and vacant
feelings still to wrestle
Dropped in the ocean
on this darkest of night
Gone now was her love
Swallowed by the ringed-sea
in the moon’s owl-light
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
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
Other prompts
Ferry
Drop
National Poetry Writing Month
Day 16 - NaPoWriMo Optional Prompt
Clandestine meetings
Secrets and lies
Forbidden love
Slicing unbreakable ties
Stealing love
from another
Ignorance your bliss
Always hiding in cover
Blowing up lives
Causing pain
Years of happiness
Now down the drain
Excitement disguised
As love evermore
Nothing can compete
Like a rabid carnivore
Passion turned to hate
Anger and cruelty abound
Someone’s marriage in tatters
You, continuing to confound
As quick as it began
One day you’re gone
Without a goodbye
The end of a love song
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Tonight Kim of Writing in North Norfolk is hosting
Open Link Night at DVerse Poets Pub
Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash
Fire in the heart
keeps burning
long after
the love has gone
It is the candle
burning bright
for you
that keeps me
holding on
Watching from the window
expecting you
to walk
up the path
Pretending nothing
happened
A figment of
my imagination
Your avalanche of wrath
Hopelessly pining
for the love you
took from me
when you left
Saying I was
undeserving
and leaving me
forever bereft
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts:
Fire
Avalanche
Watch
Photo by Charlie Howell on Unsplash
How do i erase you
from my mind?
How do I delete you
from my memory?
How do I forget the love
we shared?
After the feelings I bared
You have rejected me
and scorned me
I am banished from your life
I have become invisible
and out of sight
The sting is as bad as the bite
You look right through me
as if I did not exist
You are blind to my presence
Obscured from your view
I am now insignificant
as I become your relinquishment
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Merrill is hosting at the bar tonight at dVerse Poets Pub
Tonight's challenge is "Invisible"
We have always been together
Since you were a little girl
and I was just a sapling
You shared your deepest secrets
and cried underneath my boughs
I was here when you were grappling
I loved you and protected you
and I watched you grow into
a beautiful young woman
To let go of you now
when you need me the most
would be inhuman
Tell me what troubles you my child?
Has someone broken your dear heart?
Why are you weeping?
You finally calm your mind
and look at me with big teary eyes
and tell me your heart is leaping
You are not feeling sad
Quite the opposite, you say
Your heart is full to bursting
You have fallen in love
with someone so special
and he has asked for your hand
You are going to move away
Leaving me alone without you
It has already been planned
Now my heart feels broken
My sap begins to seep
I will be alone in this meadow
You hug me one last time
Promising to return one day
and I just weep like a willow
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
In response to Reena's picture prompt
Reena's Weekly Challenge 72 - What do you see?
You were brave and strong
Valiant and proud
I loved you deeply
To you I was avowed
You fought for my heart
and lost your life
You gave everything
To take me as your wife
My life without purpose
Now you have departed
I wander aimlessly
Living broken hearted
I leave this rose
to honor your emotion
The price you paid
The ultimate devotion
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
In response to Sue Vincent's Write/Photo Challenge - Honour