Senryu Consumed with your love Thoughts of us filling my head Wondering what’s next Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Daily Haiku – Friday January 20, 2023
Tag: love
Once I Loved You
Once I Loved You
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
Daily Haiku – Sat. December 10, 2022
Haiku Love lies there bleeding Dying a slow painful death From indifference Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Warm Love – A Quadrille
Warm Love
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"
Food for Thought
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.
Made With Love
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
Song Lyric Sunday – Sweet Love
This week Jim Adams, our host of Song Lyric Sunday, has handed the prompt reins to fellow blogger Angie from the blog King Ben’s Grandma, She has given us “Sweet, Honey, Sugar, Candy and Chocolate”, Plenty of songs out there to fit today’s theme. I have picked Sweet Love by Anita Baker. A personal favorite from the 80s.
The Song
“Sweet Love” is a song by American R&B singer and songwriter Anita Baker from her second studio album, Rapture (1986). It was written by Anita Baker, Louis A. Johnson, and Gary Bias, and produced by Michael J. Powell. It was released in July 1986, as the album’s first single.
The song was Baker’s first big hit single, peaking at number two on the US Billboard R&B chart, number three on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1986. In the UK, it reached number 13 on the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number 21 on Canada’s Top Singles chart.
“Sweet Love” won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song at the 29th Annual Grammy Awards (1987).
Daryl Easlea of the BBC said that Baker’s voice “rings like a bell”, and that “Sweet Love” is one of the three most memorable tracks on Rapture. He felt that the lyrics might have sounded trite if sung by a different artist, but that Baker imbued them with “so much passion and wonderment” that they sound like “old love sonnets” brought back to life.
Baker won two Grammys at the 29th Annual Grammy Awards (1987). “Sweet Love” was selected as Best R&B Song, earning her (along with Gary Bias and Louis Johnson) a songwriting award. Also, the album containing this song, Rapture, won in the category Best Female R&B Vocal performance.
Courtesy of Wiki
The Lyrics
With all my heart, I love you, baby Stay with me and you will see My arms will hold you, baby Never leave, 'cause I believe I'm in love Sweet love Hear me callin' out your name I feel no shame I'm in love, sweet love Don't you ever go away It'll always be this way Your heart has called me closer to you I will be all that you need Just trust In what we're feeling Never leave, 'cause baby, I believe In this love Sweet love Hear me callin' out your name I feel no shame I'm in love, sweet love Don't you ever go away It'll always be this way There's no stronger love in this world (no stronger love) Oh, baby, no You're my man, I'm your girl I'll never go, wait and see, can't be wrong Don't you know this is where you belong? How sweet this dream, how lovely, baby Stay right here, never fear I will be all that you need Never leave, 'cause baby, I believe In this love Sweet love Hear me callin' out your name I feel no shame I'm in love, sweet love Don't you ever go away It'll always be this way oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no (Sweet love) oh-ooh So sweet So sweet So sweet oh, oh, love (Sweet love) yeah, oh love Oh baby no, sweeter love (Sweet love) oh sweeter love Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no (Sweet love) don't nobody know Don't nobody know how sweet it is (Sweet love) how sweet it is Love me sweetly, baby Just leave me sweetly, baby (Sweet love) Don't nobody know Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Anita Baker / Gary Bias / Louis A. Johnson Sweet Love lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Hard Work
Hard Work
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’
Daily Haiku – Thursday August 25, 2022
Senryu Sometimes our love dies Like a blossom on a tree To be born again Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Daily Haiku – Wednesday August 3, 2022
Senryu Love lies there bleeding At the end of your anger Dying as you speak Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Wrap Me In Love – A Quadrille – Poem of the Month – July 2022
Wrap Me In Love
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