Senryu The depth of your love And the feelings that you have Are enough for me Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Daily Haiku – Thu. May 5, 2022
Tag: love
Daily Haiku – Sun. May 1, 2022
Senryu I dive into love Fearless and open to all who might catch me there Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Unanswered Questions
Unanswered Questions
The past only an arm’s length away A glimmer of what once was still shines briefly in the darkness where you now reside Savagely robbed of love far too soon A life taken. Snuffed out like a candle Leaving your body paralyzed, unable to move As if limbs had been amputated How can a heart still beat when broken? Thrown so cruelly into the dark corners of the mind where questions will go unanswered Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Grace is hosting Open Link Night at D'Verse Poets
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Beneath billowy clouds We lay together on a red tartan blanket Sated from our picnic lunch The warmth of sun on skin and sweet summer wine on lips Wildflowers he picked and carefully threaded into my hair Heady, hypnotic moments As butterflies danced and dragonflies hovered All in the golden afternoon I hear the three voices Loud and clear His, speaking of his love for me Mine, repeating his words back but inaudibly so he would not hear Then that of my conscience as always, keeping me silent and so his words will remain just echoes in my mind and the events of this day only memories Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Sanaa is hosting D'Verse Poets and has prompted us with choosing three Lewis Carroll poems from the list she provided and weave them into a poem of our own. I chose: Echoes The Three Voices All in the Golden Afternoon
Without a Trace – Poem of the Month – February 2022
Without a Trace
Footprints stolen by the sea Voices drowned by gulls Words carried away in protest on salty winds The beach keeps its secrets of ghosts from the past Sweeping away remnants of life and love without a trace until there’s nothing left but pristine sand Although here among the driftwood and starfish, your essence lingers still Your presence is felt, always Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Sarah from Sarahsouthwest is hosting Tuesday night at D'Verse and she has prompted us with Lost Valentines "lost loves, your broken loves, your loves that never were! The fireworks that didn’t quite go off, the bud that never opened, the seed that failed to sprout." This is a poem I wrote a couple of years ago Image by Christina1966 from Pixabay
Mating Dance – Poem of the Month – January, 2022
Mating Dance
A gentle touch as if a feather slowly stroking skin Sending an uncontrollable shiver down the spine Dark eyes holding a gaze longer than is comfortable Alluring, anticipating Powerful, charismatic The mating dance of two exotic birds? Is the performance enough? Maybe, maybe not Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Merril is hosting at D'Verse Poets tonight and has prompted us to write a Quadrille incorporating the word 'Shiver' A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title Photo - Pixabay
Language of Love
Language of Love
Eyes closed and leaning back She listened to the sonorous yet dulcet, tonal sounds of a voice Comforting to her ears In her mind she pictured him Tall and olive-skinned perhaps The accent so slight and hardly noticeable with an uncommon emphasis on certain syllables Making the most basic word poetic and honeyed in its delivery A soothing balm on a scalded soul Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Laura Bloomsbury is hosting Tuesday Poetics at D'Verse Poets. Today is National Thesaurus Day and she has prompted us with writing a poem as follows: 1. Write a SOUND POEM which includes AT LEAST ONE from EACH of the FIVE HEARING CATEGORY SELECTIONS below: (reference the hearing words you chose in your post). bellow; clink; drone; jingle; quiver; clamour; dissonant; rip-roaring; tempestuous; vociferous; dulcet: honeyed; poetic; sonorous; tonal; blabber; cackle; dribble; gurgle; seethe; beseech; chant; drawl; embellish; intone Feel free to dip deeper into your chosen words by elaborating further from the Thesaurus with synonyms and antonyms AND/OR 2. Simply write about the Thesaurus, as the above poets have – what it means to you; describe it, have fun with it. Let the synonyms flow, or antagonise with antonyms. There are no restrictions on poetry style or meter but those of you who like Acrostics might want to make a nine liner for THESAURUS. I chose the third set of 'Sounds'
Made With Love
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 Sarah from Sarahsouthwest hosted Tuesday Poetics at D'Verse Poets and has prompted us with 'Food' Word Prompt Essence - FOWC
An Amuse Bouche
An Amuse Bouche
Come flirt with me So we might spread Our wings and fly To exotic places calling Come and kiss me gently Your lips I want to taste An amuse bouche To tease me playfully and whet my appetite for what is yet to come Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved De Jackson, aka Whimsy Gizmo, is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets. She has prompted us with any form of the word muse or amuse etc. A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title
Daily Haiku – Thu. December 23, 2021
Senryu Love is around us Let it envelop your heart And heal your sadness Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved