Love is a Battlefield Exhausted from treadingthe uneven ground that is youI step back into black shadowsCraving anonymity and peaceFatigued from sparring andexchanging elevated vocabularyScratching and clawingat the remnants of our lifeAn escape merely a detourWishing for better fortuneAvoiding more conflictYet ultimately surrenderingto the unseen enemyFor love is a battlefieldChristine Bolton – Poetry for HealingContinue reading “Love is a Battlefield – Poem of the Month – November 2019”
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Poem of the Month – October – Jagged Pieces
Jagged Pieces Confusion and hurtwhen life and loveare fragmented imagesin a broken mirror Jagged pieces of partial picturesforcing them to fitdoes not make them clearer Love seen onlyin the abstractwhere sometimesit was a safe place to be Life in realitytoo arduous, difficulta price to payand a yearning to be free But a magnanimous heartalways gives benefitto a multitude of doubtsAContinue reading “Poem of the Month – October – Jagged Pieces”
Poem of the Month – September 2019 – Shaken
Shaken Love has leftthis marriage,this houseTaking with itmy peace of mindEquilibrium shakenIdentity robbedFeeling nakedLeaving me maligned The view of futureobscured with dense fogI claw my way throughnot knowing where the path leadsSunlight intermittentBrief and encouragingOnly to be snatched awayFrom the remnants of tangled weeds A cloud of black raindoused the fire in your heartThe hatred left toContinue reading “Poem of the Month – September 2019 – Shaken”
Poem of the Month – August 2019 – Repair
Repair To escape the chaosthat is youI must find fortitudeLashing backis no longer an optionNeeding solitude I lose myselfin the secret gardenof my mindWhere I am calmHealing can beginand justice is blind Floating on a seaof mundane thoughtsExorcising the discontentHere I countdownto the return of sanityThe storm to circumvent Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©PromptsLinda from CharmedContinue reading “Poem of the Month – August 2019 – Repair”
Poem of the Month – July 2019 – Small
Small How small and insignificant I feelAs the waves lap the shoreIn my mind I escape to a place whereMy thoughts have never gone before Would this mighty sea swallow me?In one fierce and furious gushOr kiss my feet with a gentleness That I may hear the earth’s hush Its energy coursing through my veinsSafe from harm, yetContinue reading “Poem of the Month – July 2019 – Small”
Resurrection – Poem of the Month – June 2019
Resurrection As the snow meltedin early springI finally find a voicewith which to singBuried deep undergroundwith my crushed dreamsI suffocated there whereno one heard my screams My instinct was to be freeAway from this wretched graveAn inhospitable prisonwhere I had been a slavePushing the earth upwardsmy soul was set freeNo longer indebtedand never more your devotee ChristineContinue reading “Resurrection – Poem of the Month – June 2019”
Monochrome – Poem of the Month – May 2019
Monochrome Light filtering throughthe gauze-like skySilvery whiteagainst the black of treesThe water calmon the surface of the lakeMist clearing too slowlyin the cool of the breeze The drilling of an earlymorning woodpeckerIn the distancewas the only soundSurroundings reflectiveof what is most times bleakA monochrome lifewhere happiness drowned Living in grey tonesof black mixed with whiteNo clear definitionorContinue reading “Monochrome – Poem of the Month – May 2019”
Drowning – Poem of the Month – April 2019
Drowning Like a thief in the nightStealing my fragilityMy heart still weakin its recoveryDestroying my stability Empty promisesand broken dreamsSnatching my soulSilently unravellingmy life at the seams Kindness disguisedA wolf in sheep’s clothes Preying on vulnerabilityInserting yourself into my lifeCollecting my woes I have become your possessionWith no voice of my ownYou manipulate my actionsand my every thought All IContinue reading “Drowning – Poem of the Month – April 2019”
Time of the Season – Poem of the Month – March 2019
Time of the Season The scent of orange blossomsfilling the airThe trees’ bloated fruitalready dropping to the groundThe beginning meetsthe end of the circleand Nature’s beauty is crowned The bald eagle sits highatop the pineSurveying the landscapefor his preyButterflies flutteringSearching for the sweet nectarLizards scampering away A tropical paradisethriving on sunshineRain an infrequent visitorat this time ofContinue reading “Time of the Season – Poem of the Month – March 2019”
Haunting – Poem of the Month – February 2019
Haunting The range of emotionsDisturbing and alarmingUnforeseenOut of the bluePossibly harming Perceptions cut deepA woeful heart bleedingVagrant feelingsHomelessand needing A future in suspensionSpirit crying for healingAn empty shellCast asideForever haunting Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©Word Prompts:HauntingVagrantWoeRangeD’Verse Poets – Open Link Night – Hosted by GracePhoto by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash Follow Poetry For Healing on WordPress.com (function(d){var fContinue reading “Haunting – Poem of the Month – February 2019”
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