As darkness came the dulcet tones of your voice filtered through the still night air I would hang on to every word falling from your lips Each syllable perfectly enunciated creating the beautiful Music of your soul Smiling I danced to its sweet melody Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse. Her prompt is ‘Music’ A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title.
Love is staring at a piece of art for the first time You allow yourself to feel it before taking in the details It mesmerizes with a spell Taking intelligence and decision-making skills Throwing them to the wind Obliterating that which is all around So you neither see nor hear anyone other than the magician The sun is brighter filling your heart with joy Then you step back and look at the creation The artwork is abstract Colorful but complicated It is not what it seems Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Others see it as nonsense But it is what it is Will you buy it? Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Art - Love Is All We Need, by Banksy Sanaa is hosting D'Verse Poetics tonight and as it's Valentine's Day she has prompted us with 'Love' and to say it like it is.
We lay close on cool sand counting stars in the velvet sky Knowing with each magical moment we spend together they align more perfectly in their shining, twinkling brilliance Love is born on this night of a thousand wishes As the celestial show dazzles Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved De is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse and the prompt is ‘Stars’ A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title
Once when stars were aligned and fate stepped in One kiss sent shivers down a spine I loved you In joyful days when sunshine tingled bare skin and twilight brought romance I loved you In the sultry evenings of deep summer listening to soft music lingering in fragrant air I loved you When love was tested with sickness you disappeared within your own self pity leaving me locked out, but I loved you Every day I was there balancing on the edge of your anger In your mind I was to bear blame for what happened to you, yet I still loved you Over time I had become your whipping boy as I was the closest Your recovery came too late I no longer love you Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
The inviting call of love Spoken in white breath of wintery dreams Arms outstretched in warm embrace to those who respond with blind faith Promising happiness to weather any storm Sunshine through rainfall Bringing rainbows to paint away the clouds Do you dare answer? Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Lisa from Tao Talk is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets. Her prompt word for our 44 word poem is "Warm"
Our friend Mel from the blog Caramel features an annual event on site called THE 2022 GREAT BLOGGERS’ BAKE OFF. the theme is The Joy of Baking. It is scheduled for this weekend and you can check out what to expect by clicking on the link.
Mel has invited me to write a food-related poem to share for this special event. As I absolutely love baking I am thrilled to contribute. I wrote this poem at the beginning of the year right after the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays. These two holidays are times of sharing and giving thanks with family and friends. There are certain recipes I go to each and every time because they bring back loving and warm memories.l
Wishing Mel and the co hosts of the Great Blogger’ Bake Off a successful day of sharing recipes and writes from around the world. Here is my contribution for the Bake Off.
I pull the faded recipe card From the tin stored in its usual place in the pantry It is old now and dog-eared The handwritten words Faded over time No need to read it Having made this twice a year Every year since forever Over time adjustments made A little more of this And maybe a little less of that Sensing the amounts without measure needed Layers of love and the essence of you folded in and stirred The smell of it cooking and the taste evoking precious memories of years gone by Lovingly made for you This became your favorite dish From a little boy to a grown man Even when you moved away with your family for seven years you would ask me to make it and bring it to you for the holidays It is food comforting the both of us Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
It stings, cuts, snipes and slashes
Pounds the brain
Twisting stomachs
In an intricate macramé of knotted concern
Takes breath from bodies
Blinds eyes
Bruises souls
It expands the heart
And it also breaks it
Love
The most arduous, gut-wrenching
Piece of work
Ever!
Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing
All Rights Reserved
Lisa from Tao Talk is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse tonight. Today is
Labor Day in the US and she has promoted us with the word ‘Work’
Wrap me gently in your arms Care that my sadness brings tears Softly murmur words of comfort To soothe my heart’s greatest fears Play soft music to still my mind Calming body and soul Bring me tea of peppermint This day’s taken its toll Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets tonight. She has prompted us with the word ”Wrap” A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title. Image Gordon Johnson from Pixabay
The door slightly ajar, welcoming Gentle sounds of jazz played Fragrant roses in a vase greeted her on entering He stood in the kitchen, smiling A martini in his outstretched hand Behind him a table set for dinner Yes, she was under his spell Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Sanaa from A Dash of Sunny is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse tonight and has prompted us with the word ’Spell’ a quadrille is a poem if exactly 44 words excluding the title
The past only an arm’s length away A glimmer of what once was still shines briefly in the darkness where you now reside Savagely robbed of love far too soon A life taken. Snuffed out like a candle Leaving your body paralyzed, unable to move As if limbs had been amputated How can a heart still beat when broken? Thrown so cruelly into the dark corners of the mind where questions will go unanswered Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Grace is hosting Open Link Night at D'Verse Poets