Tonight’s song is an instrumental. And one of those I wouldn’t have known had it not been for my dance training.
I really love the dreamy feel of this one, the passion, love and longing.
Enjoy!
The first warm sun (2020 Re-post)
Re-post comment:
Looking for what to re-post for today’s wander in the archives this meditation poem gave me strength and peace of mind. Hope you can feel some of that too!
Enjoy!
The first warm sun rays of spring
Warm upon my cheek
A breeze turns it into gentle caress
Brilliant light dances behind closed lids
First spring touch kiss my lips
Natures warm embrace surrounds me
Comforting, healing
Life affirmingThe Goddess gently touches
Starburst erupts
Showering me with universal love
Connecting me to me
To every living thing
Assuring me there will be a way
A path out of darkness
My trek dotted with oases of calm
Peace, connection, love
Moments of blissSecure points in a bewildering maze
Built of old and new trauma
Fear, sorrow, dark despair
Life-ending depressionInner trust and faith will guide me through
Inborn strength a given armour
Intelligens, wit and wisdom deduce true from false
The quest might be lonely
Yet aided by care and love
Freely given, by friends yet to be found
Breathe
Be still
Accept
Give thankfulnessUse your pen
© REDCAT
Jot both now and then
Hone your craft
Draft by draft
Writing will illuminate
Meditation germinate
Revision concentrate
New life emancipate
Today again the will to make poetry out of my meditation overtook me soon thereafter. :-)
Also posted to earthweal open link weekend #8.
A Sea Of Blue
The forest hills, a sea of blue
Like my heart’s longing for you
Spring awakened the feeling anew
Pain of longing, so blueThe forest hills, a sea of blue
Twinkling sapphires in the morning dew
Like my tears as we said adieu
Heart longing, so blueThe forest hills, a sea of blue
©RedCat
Ocean deep like my love for you
Your leaving torn my heart in two
Soul longing, so blue
Written for Blue Tuesday over at dVerse.
This prompt made me realize that blue is quite common in my writing.
Both as a sad heartbreak colour like in Girl Blue – A Love Song and Trapped Within A Glass-Shard Maze. As a hopeful sky colour like in Blue Star Horses and The Dawn Sky Is Ethereal Blue. And as the colour of dreams in Blue Forest Of Remembrance and Summer sky.
Maybe I should try some other colours.
Stardust Souls
We stardust souls are eternal, yet needing a flesh costume to affect and interact in the physical world. So we subject ourselves to the death-rebirth trauma of being born, forgetting most of our knowledge and wisdom in the process.
Then we grow and learn what we can in a lifetime. Laughter and joy. Friendship. Hope and despair. Love and hate. Pain and anguish.
When the flesh grows weak and old, we die and remember everything from the beginning of time. Remember the reason we undertake life again and again. Only to once again choose the flesh costume. Hoping this time we’ll be able to awaken the flesh’s animal soul enough to impart some of our wisdom. Knowing that all we can hope to become, are messengers.
Only mouths are we. Who sings the distant heart which safely exists in the center of all things.
© RedCat
Written for Prosery: Here’s the thing about existing at dVerse. Where we write prose, maximum 144 words, incorporating a line of poetry.
Tonight’s line is from a favorite poet.
“Only mouths are we. Who sings the distant heart which safely exists in the center of all things? – from Rainer Maria Rilke, “Heartbeat.”
Believer by Imagine Dragons – Saturday Song
I’m still in so much pain from my shoulder that I can’t use the arm, sleep, think or write. So tonight I chose a song that I truly could write a lot about. But won’t. Let’s just say it resonates strongly with me normally and even more so right now.
The corous goes:
Pain! You made me a, you made me a
From Believer by Imagine Dragons
Believer, believer
Pain! You break me down and build me up
Believer, believer
Pain! Oh, let the bullets fly, oh, let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from…
Pain! You made me a, you made me a
Believer, believer
Hope everyone has a better weekend then me!
Restless rest (2020 Re-post)
Re-post comment:
I’ve had a little ache in my shoulder for a couple of weeks. Nothing major. Until today. When it exploded into – want to scream with pain every time I move my arm to much or too fast. Tried to take a rest earlier today, but lying down just made it worse.
So anticipating a night of restless rest tonight. Which is why this is this week’s Wandering the Archives Wednesday.
Haunted nights
Disrupted sleep
Grinding theethHeart-longed ghosts
Reawaken grief
Daylight seizeAngry wraiths
Trauma made
Flashback gavePhantom could-have-been
Raises fear
Near-miss dearLonely-heart specter
Honest trust
Hope dustShades erupting
Legions burned
Can humans learnPoet quills
© REDCAT
Nighttime fills
Worrywart stills
I’ve had a couple of weeks of restless rest. The death-rebirth energies surrounding midwinter tends to do that. Especially if you work with yourself then.
Add to that the realization that climate change is not longer a thing of the future. Climate emergency is NOW. So we should ACT NOW. Stop consuming so much! Choose better materials. Work towards not using fossil fuels. And so on and so forth. All the things I feel like a broken record for repeating again, and again, and again.
As icing on the cake comes angst as a beloved friend, and several others, had a near miss with death. Senseless violence that’s probably aimed at someone, but shows total lack of care for human life. Again, loss of life is down to sheer coincidences. I really don’t want to live in a world where some think blowing a bomb, nearly talking a building, is a correct response to anything!
Poem written for weekly challenge: GHOSTS at earthweal.
Gaia Speaks
I am the Earth
I am the sky
The life giving waters
The all consuming firesTo me you belong from birth
Until the day you die
All creatures are my sons and daughters
Through the eons until the sun’s heat expiresAgain and again I see souls rebirth
Sometimes a soul ascend, grow wings to with spirits fly
You need to nurture those deep diving free thinkers
To let them hope and change inspireOtherwise you’ll die on a barren earth
Damned however much you then regrets cry
The time to act is now! Do better!
Do what your mother Gaia requiresStop being nature destroying vampires!
©RedCat
Written for Poetics: Exploring the Narrative Voice at dVerse. For some reason this one was hard. Perhaps because I needed to choose my narrative voice before starting, instead of just having it happen as I go along.
This is the second time I’ve written in Gaia’s voice. The first was a Gaia’s Nightmare, a flash fiction piece.
Seeds – A Quadrille
Martyn Smith from London, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sow love and friendship giving seeds
Uproot energy stealing weedsNurture that which creativity breeds
Scale away all that negativity breedsGrow roots that fulfill your needs
Show thankfulness for caring deedsFollow paths that to growth leads
©RedCat
Sow hope and dream fostering seeds
Written for tonight’s Planting Seeds Quadrille prompt at dVerse.
Read other Quadrilles by me here.
Martyn Smith from London, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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