Senryu
The day of romance
A heart pierced with an arrow
Love everlasting
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Daily Haiku – Thu. February 14, 2019
Tag: Heart
Daily Haiku – Sun. February 10, 2019
Senryu
As we sit quietly
In the flickering firelight
I hear your heartbeat
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Daily Haiku – Fri. October 19, 2018
My heart aches for you
Wishing you had never left
Please come back to me
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
Departed
Departed
I harvest the remnants
of our life once complete
Limiting the time I spend
Reminiscing
As my heart now deplete
My eyes look around
the spartan room
Your things gone
and furniture removed
A feeling of empty gloom
My eyes drawn to the window
Afternoon sun bathing the glade
In a matinee performance
of fantastic color and light
A silent serenade
Missing you, still loving you
Feeling you here
Where life used to exemplify
our love and intimacy
Now fated to disappear
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
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OctPoWriMo – October Poem a day
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Recovery
Recovery
My capacious heart
Full of affection
Secretes slowly
The love you need
Like an intravenous injection
Your wounded soul
Beaten and bruised
Crying to be nurtured
And healed
No longer misused
Let me nourish
Your spirit and mind
With milk and honey
Infuse them with strength
Until once more entwined
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
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Mine
Mine
The feeling was involuntary
Impossible to hold back
Encompassing my body
In a gradual attack
Filling my heart with love
To be poured over you
In sensual oils to massage
And the kiss of morning dew
Tied in silk ribbons
Your limbs I will bind
So you will stay forever
Lady Justice is blind
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
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Trespass
Trespass
Your migration into my heart
is a violation of the sweetest kind
I can barely concentrate
I am going out of my mind
In the rubric of my desires
you appear so many times
The quintessential lover
Committing the ultimate crime
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
Prompts:
Unsafe Harbor – A Quadrille
Unsafe Harbor
You promised to love me
and to protect me always
Through thick and thin
for the rest of our days
However you lied to me
and my heart was broken
I harbor no ill will toward you, but
another word will never be spoken
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
In response to D’verse Poets Monday Quadrille Challenge by Lillian – Harbor
A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words (excluding the title)
Daily Haiku – Mon. September 24, 2018
Brooding on the moors
Wishing he had never gone
A heart left empty
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing
Time
Time
Time placed in a bottle
Saved for a rainy day
Remembrances sweet
A familiar scent
Jogging a memory
A feeling of foreplay
Slowing down
To savor the taste
Of delicious sentiments
Dancing in the mind
Toying with the senses
Having thoughts unchaste
Traveling back to that time
Bringing certain joy to the heart
Much younger then
The world was one’s oyster
The pearl for the taking
Lovers never to part
The hotel old and quaint
Room number 5
Overlooking the square
Lovemaking in the afternoon
Sipping on wine
Never felt more alive
Back in the present
Putting the photograph away
Pushing the time
Back in the bottle
Keeping the memory safe
Until it rains another day
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
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