Being closed off and aloof it is impossible for anyone to break through the deafening silence Your cold, frigid heart will likely never thaw What will it take to reach you once more Or will you forever be the ice man Frozen in time Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets. She has promoted us to write a quadrille (a poem of no more than 44 words) using any form of the word Ice
Senryu Those moments in time When we were young and in love In my heart always Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Senryu Fragile is the heart Given up so easily Without thought of self Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Senryu Even when apart I know when you think of me My heart skips a beat Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
My soul, a river flowing
Its water not always clear
A tempest stirring trouble
Pushing obstacles in its path
Yet it navigates well
and moves on its journey
My heart, along for the ride
Open, vulnerable
Not always strong enough
to handle the bumps and bruises
of this voyage
Hanging on for dear life
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All Rights Reserved
Word Prompts
Tempest - RDP
Clear - Stream of Consciousness
Broken like the wing of an injured bird Broken is the silence of words never heard Broken like branches of a tree slowly bent and withered Crippled by the performance You so cruelly delivered Feeling shattered and broken in a thousand parts It is the sliver of glass that is optimism in my heart A heart left in pieces after you rendered your speech You have exited my world and you are now out of reach I struggle to sweep away the fragments of a dream Scattered in explosion A world of hope to redeem Broken is my spirit at the end of this line Broken is this heart You took what was mine Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Sanaa is hosting Open Link Night at D'Verse Poets tonight. I wrote this poem about four years ago.
Senryu A heart wandering Aimless without direction Is a waste of love Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Haiku Tiny heart beating Pretty bird so small but strong Singing his sweet song Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Senryu My heart aches for you Wishing you had never left Please come back to me Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
A wave of the hand An inspiring conversation An expectant mind Who would lay blame for the Hope carried in a naïve heart Or was it just a figment of imagination Sending you on a path to nowhere? Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Word Prompts Inspire - Stream of Consciousness Wave - RDP Blame - Word of the Day Figment - FOWC