Musings on life, love, and healing past trauma
Your lips taste like the sweetest wine
Your body curves like a sensuous vine
Your eyes with lust filled mischievousness shineThe world disappears when my eyes meet thine
©RedCat
For your love I knelt at Aphrodite’s shrine
I’m over the moon ecstatic that you’re mine
Written for tonight’s Quadrille prompt at dVerse. A Quadrille is a 44 word (not including title) poem that must contain the prompt word, which tonight is wine.
To read other Quadrilles by me click here.
Seasons they come, and seasons they go
There’s no need to shed tears for summer
She’ll come come back again, when the flower moon glow
And we’ll dance to magic midsummerIt’s springtime again
It’s springtime again
The green man has brought it back to us
Trees budding again
Grass growing again
Time to plant seeds and be joyousSeasons they go, and come back again
Though we might forget during winter
But soon there once more be sun in the glen
And we’ll fill the forest with laughterIt’s springtime again
©RedCat
It’s springtime again
The green man has brought it back to us
Trees budding again
Grass growing again
Time to plant seeds and be joyous
For some reason after reading up on the Green Man I started to think about folk songs and ballads. And one in particular started playing in my head – In folk song tone (I Folkviseton) by Nils Ferlin, a poet who I sang long before I read. It’s a well known love song.
So, I ended up writing a poem that is set to the same tune as Ferlin’s poem. And then making an acapella recording of it. :-)
I’ve had similar ideas befor, but this is the first time I actually managed to pull it together. Which makes me very happy and proud indeed. Maybe someday I will actually reach that elusive song writer place.
To see all art and read all poetry for today go to The Wombwell Rainbow.
Also shared with Open Link Night at dVerse.
John Law “Am 68. Live in Mexborough. Retired teacher. Artist; musician; poet. Recently included in ‘Viral Verses’ poetry volume. Married. 2 kids; 3 grandkids.”
Colours beneath the sky
In pale blue swallows fly
Sparkling mischievous eyesHawks soar with white wisps
The salty blue calm, no ships
Smiling strawberry red lipsPink stars scatter the ground
Fragrant green all around
Sweet summer love foundTo lay on heath is soft
Wind caresses, then is lost
Touch on skin lifts joy aloftBlushing on milk-white as she lay bare
©RedCat
Alluring like the day is fair
Dream that she would ever dare
Kerfe Roig A resident of New York City, Kerfe Roig enjoys transforming words and images into something new. Her poetry and art have been featured online by Right Hand Pointing, Silver Birch Press, Yellow Chair Review, The song is…, Pure Haiku, Visual Verse, The Light Ekphrastic, Scribe Base, The Zen Space, and The Wild Word, and published in Ella@100, Incandescent Mind, Pea River Journal, Fiction International: Fool, Noctua Review, The Raw Art Review, and several Nature Inspired anthologies. Follow her explorations on her blogs, https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/ (which she does with her friend Nina), and https://kblog.blog/, and see more of her work on her website http://kerferoig.com/
The shortest day of the year
We gather to lore hear
Keep the Yule log blazing bright
All through the cold dark Midwinter nightThe longest night of the year
We gather ancestral spirits near
Keep the covens magic might
Shining spell beacon in the endless nightThe darkest night of the year
We gather all we hold dear
Keep the heart fire in our minds sight
Steady soul rhythm all through the quiet nightUntil the golden dawn of a new year
©RedCat
Through that window I got a glimpse into the Three Witches world once again. For more read Witches Walpurgis Night Preparation.
Written for today’s Adventcalendar post, and The Sunday Muse.
1 December – Advent Calendar 2020
Waiting a Long December Night – 2 December 2020
Glow – 3 December (2019 Re-Post)
Birth Echoes Through Time – 4 December
Golden Dawn Of A New Year – 5 December
Night Walks – 6 December (2019 Re-post)
Spirit of the season – 7 December (2019 Re-post)
Searching For A Way – 8 December
Surrender Sky-clad to the Moon – 9 December
Tomten Wonders – A Golden Shovel Poem Inspired by Viktor Rydberg, 10 December
Midwinter Love – A Landay Poem, 11 December (2019 Re-post)
Cold Moon – 12 December (2019 Re-post)
Saint Lucia – 13 December (2019 Re-post)
Inglenook Dreams – 14 December
Dark moon of the crone – 15 December (2019 Re-post)
Gothic Christmas Carol – 16 December
Love Me, Accept Me, Hold Me – Affirmation poem, 17 December
Mnemosyne visits – 18 December (2019 Re-post)
Yule Angst – A Villanelle Song by Kmt47 feat RedCat, 19 December
Girl Blue – A Love Song, 20 December
Solstice prayer – 21 December (2019 Re-post)
Longing by the Moon – 22 December
Moon Madness – A Acrostic Poem, 23 December
Gift Rhymes – 24 December (2019 Re-post)
She stared out the windowpane.
The garden looked the same.
No help to an pandemic frame.To witness the historic now.
While searching for how
To relieve suffering somehow.Her reverie disturbed.
Flutter of wings is heard.
A landing blackbird.In its birds eye gaze.
Reflection show all the ways.
Loving compassion leads out of this maze.So she starts to write.
What she saw with her inner sight.
As she meditated on this long dark human night.That every human need to reflect.
© REDCAT
On everyone’s worth and need to love connect.
To responsibility for planet and all humans accept.
Inspired by the Friday Fictioneer photo, and my meditation found mantra from earlier today.
A prose poem story in 100 words.
The world according to RedCat 
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