A raven came to me one stormy night
As I lay contemplating ending life
Taking me on a wild curious flightFirst we flew through my years, where abuse ran rife
Showing me every deep unhealed wound
Then the raven took me to afterlifeWe flew over the souls that abuse drowned
A pungent dead sea bordered by crushed dreams
My guide said that’s where my thoughts had be boundShe saw me flinch when hearing the seas screams
Clacked her beak knowingly as my tears fell
And flew on navigating by moonbeamsWe alighted in a field of seashells
Bathing me in pearlescent healing light
She said you’ll find freedom through an inkwellWith one of my feathers you’ll demons smite
Don’t worry it will as before regrow
Heal yourself and others as you pain writeFollow the stream to the source of your flow
Learn how to unravel fates twisted thread
Where Death chooses which souls to rebirth goThe last thing I saw was Death’s smiling head
©RedCat
Before waking remade in a sundrenched bed

My forth poem for GloPoWriMo and April Ekprastic Challenge. As in January, writing to works of art is changing my writing. How I prepare for writing, for example doing more research on mythology and symbolism. So this time I spent a while reading up more on ravens, Valkyries and Psychopomps’ and other shape shifting spirit guides.
Also I seem to write longer more intricate pieces then I usually do. :-)
Written in Terza rima, a form first known to be used by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in Divine Comedy, completed in 1320.
It’s a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern ABA BCB CDC etc. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or in a couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet.
Also incorporating three words from the Skyloverwordlist words: pungent, curious, sea shell.
To see all art and read all poems for today go to The Wombwell Rainbow.
April Ekphrastic Challenge – GloPoWriMo 2021
- 1 April – Dark Orchid
- 2 April – A Dirge for the Drowned
- 3 April – Granddaughters of Red Riding Hood
- 4 April – Raven Dream Flight
- 5 April – It’s Spring Time Again and The Sweetest Wine – A Quadrille
- 6 April – There Once Was A Cat and To All The Good Girls
- 7 April – Mind Finds Soul Fearlessly Shines
- 8 April – Trapped, Imprisoned In Her Own Mind – A Triple Triolet and Ode To My Dream Girl
- 9 April – The Aurora Butterfly – A Sonnet
- 10 April – The Dawn Sky Is Ethereal Blue – A Triolet
- 11 April – Blue Forest Of Remembrance
- 12 April – Incantation to Bau-Gula – A Sonnet
- 13 April – The Stars Are Out Tonight – A Villanelle and Cat Searching High and Low
- 14 April – Shadow People Before My Eyes – A Triple Triolet
- 15 April – Three Times Three Times Three
- 16 April – Autumn feast – A Sonnet
- 17 April – In The Badger Sett
- 18 April – Hellcat
- 19 April – Life Lessons and No Bother! – A Quadrille
- 20 April – Fairy Dust Magic – A Trio Of Ovillejo’s and Crows Calling At Night
- 21 April – Polished Mirror Women – Dedicated to Marisol
- 22 April – Word Salad and A Beltane Song
- 23 April – Floating Around Everywhere and Oh Bother! – A Quadrille in Ovillejo Form
- 24 April – A Thousand Paper Cranes
- 25 April – Change and Restless Body and Mind
- 26 April – Through Hell
- 27 April – Weaving Web and Another Piece Of The Puzzel – A Puente Poem
- 28 April – Sounds In The Wind – A Puente Poem
- 29 April – Fire That Burns Away All Fears – A Sonnet and Blackbirds Dusk Sings
- 30 April – Star Prayer – A Sonnet
Reblogged this on The Wombwell Rainbow.
Thank you! 🌷
We can always come back from the brink!
We can, even if it doesn’t always feel that way. And especially with some help and support. 💜
Yes, that is usually necessary, and there if we reach out 🙏
For me reaching out have always been one of the hardest things. But I’ve gotten better the last couple of years.
Writing poetry about it also helps more than I ever thought possible. ☺️
I have found that too 😊
It’s a poem of healing and finding the light. Very well done!
Thank you! It’s a recurring theme of my writing. 🌷
💙❤️💙