Only the sea could match the anger Only wind could howl with more clangor Here no one listens and there’s no one to call An unheard scream goes where dead words fall In the furor of crashing waves drowning the agony of woes The significance of their pain wasted on those no one knows Flowers waving in sympathy as they slip to a watery grave Where lost souls are bound and not one person can save Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing © In response to Sue Vincent's Weekly Write/Photo
Days, weeks, months of verbal battles and silences Jockeying for post position in a race of insanity Who can shout the loudest? Who will be heard? Who can inflict the most pain? Where is the breaking point? and there it was The finality of action A divisive statement spat like venom from a snake’s jaws The words slowly resonating and the brain processing It was at that darkest moment we crossed the Delaware Together The coin had dropped in the slot The words ceased and silence prevailed A rainbow appeared as clarity was found A tumultuous synergy ingrained in the soul A dying ember destined to be the eternal flame Sometimes blinded and confused but tethered by heart strings A love with roots deep from another time Strong Impenetrable Everlasting Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing © Kim from Writing in North Norfolk is hosting D'Verse Poets Open Link Night Image by ArtTower from Pixabay
The hope that is in my heart cannot be stolen or imprisoned I may lose faith from time to time but it is always there It is who I am and what defines me Others can steal my heart and my soul Rob me of my dignity and self esteem Break my spirit But that flicker of hope can always be kindled It is the eternal flame that drives me It cannot be taken away from me for I am more than breath and bone Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing © Written for Christine from Brave & Reckless who prompted us with the phrase "I am more than breath and bone"
Silent sounds
music
to a wounded soul
Pure air
oxygen
to a jumbled brain
Birdsong
soothing
to a fractured heart
Perception
enhanced
by the senses
An epiphany
never
to forget
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
In response to Sue Vincent's weekly
Write/Photo challenge
Daily Word Prompts
Forget - Word of the Day
Animal sounds - Stream of Consciousness
Perception - RDP
Epiphany - FOWC
Salty, stinging tears
filling eyes
Bursting forth
in a cascade
of aesthetic emotion
Cathartically
flushing
a wounded heart
which lies
in pieces
at your feet
As light enters
the dull, dim
coffin of my mind
and the sobs
of agony subside,
a strange sense
of peace
befalls my being
and I am
again calm
Knowing
It is finished
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts
Aesthetic - RDP
Strange - FOWC
Finished - JusJoJan
Image -Pixabay Margo Deco
The power of touch
One stroke of a hand
infusing energy
into a worn-down body
Shooting through veins
A much needed
euphoria producing drug
The simplicity
of the act
yielding results
Impossible to gauge
the enormity
of the action
Yet infrequently used
As if too personal
Invading another’s space
When sometimes
the silent cry from within
must be heard
The humanity of action
to supersede the insanity
of what we have become
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Written for Sadje's What Do You See
Weekly Photo Challenge
Word of the Day - Gauge
Go Dog Go Cafe - Promote Monday
Today I dream
staring at the
mirror lake
I watch as a family
of eider duck
scores the glass surface
The serenity
of movement
in contrast to the
laboring below
Wishing for that
same veneer
of self confidence
While inside
quaking with fright
To project one side
while experiencing
the other
The distinction seemingly
imperceptible
My eyes look
to the drifting clouds
Where faces are
formed in the
constant motion
Colors changing
predicting
the inevitability
of rainfall
ready to release
Continuing my reverie
to the soft green
hillsides where
I imagine the
Purple heather
blanketing the
gentle slopes
dotted with wild
bushes of
golden gorse
Lost in the beauty
of the scene
Feeling peaceful
The elements
filling me with
inspiration
and hope
As always
I find answers
in my dreams
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Sue Vincent’s write/photo - Glass
Word Prompts
SoCS - Dream
RDP - Imperceptible
WotD - Prediction
Exhausted from treading
the uneven ground that is you
I step back into black shadows
Craving anonymity and peace
Fatigued from sparring and
exchanging elevated vocabulary
Scratching and clawing
at the remnants of our life
An escape merely a detour
Wishing for better fortune
Avoiding more conflict
Yet ultimately surrendering
to the unseen enemy
For love is a battlefield
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Prompts
OctPoWriMo - Black
Fortune - WotD
Shadows - RDP
Ground - SoCS
Detour- FOWC
Love is a Battlefield - MLMM - Mad about the Metaphor
Confusion and hurt
when life and love
are fragmented images
in a broken mirror
Jagged pieces
of partial pictures
forcing them to fit
does not make them clearer
Love seen only
in the abstract
where sometimes
it was a safe place to be
Life in reality
too arduous, difficult
a price to pay
and a yearning to be free
But a magnanimous heart
always gives benefit
to a multitude of doubts
A habit to woo the nemesis
Glueing back the pieces
of a fractured life
Compassionate and forgiving
Awaiting a new genesis
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts
Habit - WotD
Confusion - RDP
Magnanimous - FOWC
Bjorn is hosting at D'Verse Poets Pub
and has prompted us with metaphors
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
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
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