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"eiderdown" poems
Some say love's a little boy, And some say it's a bird, Some say it makes the world go around, Some say that's absurd, And when I asked the man next-door, Who looked as if he knew, His wife got very cross indeed, And said it wouldn't do. Does it look like a pair of pyjamas, Or the ham in a temperance hotel? Does its odour remind one of llamas, Or has it a comforting smell? Is it prickly to touch as a hedge is, Or soft as eiderdown fluff? Is it sharp or quite smooth at the edges? O tell me the truth about love. Our history books refer to it In cryptic little notes, It's quite a common topic on The Transatlantic boats; I've found the subject mentioned in Accounts of suicides, And even seen it scribbled on The backs of railway guides. Does it howl like a hungry Alsatian, Or boom like a military band? Could one give a first-rate imitation On a saw or a Steinway Grand? Is its singing at parties a riot? Does it only like Classical stuff? Will it stop when one wants to be quiet? O tell me the truth about love. I looked inside the summer-house; It wasn't over there; I tried the Thames at Maidenhead, And Brighton's bracing air. I don't know what the blackbird sang, Or what the tulip said; But it wasn't in the chicken-run, Or underneath the bed. Can it pull extraordinary faces? Is it usually sick on a swing? Does it spend all its time at the races, or fiddling with pieces of string? Has it views of its own about money? Does it think Patriotism enough? Are its stories ****** but funny? O tell me the truth about love. When it comes, will it come without warning Just as I'm picking my nose? Will it knock on my door in the morning, Or tread in the bus on my toes? Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love.
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O Tell Me The Truth About Love
Some say love's a little boy, And some say it's a bird, Some say it makes the world go around, Some say that's absurd, And when I asked the man next-door, Who looked as if he knew, His wife got very cross indeed, And said it wouldn't do. Does it look like a pair of pyjamas, Or the ham in a temperance hotel? Does its odour remind one of llamas, Or has it a comforting smell? Is it prickly to touch as a hedge is, Or soft as eiderdown fluff? Is it sharp or quite smooth at the edges? O tell me the truth about love. Our history books refer to it In cryptic little notes, It's quite a common topic on The Transatlantic boats; I've found the subject mentioned in Accounts of suicides, And even seen it scribbled on The backs of railway guides. Does it howl like a hungry Alsatian, Or boom like a military band? Could one give a first-rate imitation On a saw or a Steinway Grand? Is its singing at parties a riot? Does it only like Classical stuff? Will it stop when one wants to be quiet? O tell me the truth about love. I looked inside the summer-house; It wasn't over there; I tried the Thames at Maidenhead, And Brighton's bracing air. I don't know what the blackbird sang, Or what the tulip said; But it wasn't in the chicken-run, Or underneath the bed. Can it pull extraordinary faces? Is it usually sick on a swing? Does it spend all its time at the races, or fiddling with pieces of string? Has it views of its own about money? Does it think Patriotism enough? Are its stories ****** but funny? O tell me the truth about love. When it comes, will it come without warning Just as I'm picking my nose? Will it knock on my door in the morning, Or tread in the bus on my toes? Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love.
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~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ After days of long studies comes the days of rest. My violet dreams were slumber-soft filled with lucent lilies of curling flames born of ever colour known and unknown. And I stood in awe of them as my fears fall back and cower in the shades of my mind. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ I muse at how quickly my body relaxed. Due to my marjoram'd pillows and sheets of pure silk and eiderdown? Or due to the sips of the lavender tea in my in my teacup decorated with a butterfly motif? ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ I remember the sips in fours as I blew the steam from my cup; The first sip balmed my lips. The second soothed my throat. The third lulled my thoughts. The fourth stilled my soul. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ Though the tea, the pillow and sheets were had a hand in my nightly rest, the real answer is on my brow - for it was when the night's cool air blew, and where you placed your sweet Morphean kiss. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ With a smile, I wake. Sat on my golden summer throne located in my marble gazebo; a jewel in my private garden. With thin caryatid pillars, draped in fine doric chitons encircling me. Their sculpted limbs hold up the frieze carved with acanthus that has a stained glass top of peacocks and stargazers. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ The sheer curtains billow when the eastern winds blow. By me, a gold side table with a mirrored top supported by three Greek key legs. A pewter quill pen with a steel nib and violet feather rests by its clay inkpot; both beside a silver sinuous nouveau vase and a small stack of poetry books of black leather and gilt. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~
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Aug 4, 2018
Aug 4, 2018 at 7:48 AM UTC
~ ⚘⚪ Jasmine Pearls I ⚪⚘ ~
~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ After days of long studies comes the days of rest. My violet dreams were slumber-soft filled with lucent lilies of curling flames born of ever colour known and unknown. And I stood in awe of them as my fears fall back and cower in the shades of my mind. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ I muse at how quickly my body relaxed. Due to my marjoram'd pillows and sheets of pure silk and eiderdown? Or due to the sips of the lavender tea in my in my teacup decorated with a butterfly motif? ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ I remember the sips in fours as I blew the steam from my cup; The first sip balmed my lips. The second soothed my throat. The third lulled my thoughts. The fourth stilled my soul. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ Though the tea, the pillow and sheets were had a hand in my nightly rest, the real answer is on my brow - for it was when the night's cool air blew, and where you placed your sweet Morphean kiss. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ With a smile, I wake. Sat on my golden summer throne located in my marble gazebo; a jewel in my private garden. With thin caryatid pillars, draped in fine doric chitons encircling me. Their sculpted limbs hold up the frieze carved with acanthus that has a stained glass top of peacocks and stargazers. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ The sheer curtains billow when the eastern winds blow. By me, a gold side table with a mirrored top supported by three Greek key legs. A pewter quill pen with a steel nib and violet feather rests by its clay inkpot; both beside a silver sinuous nouveau vase and a small stack of poetry books of black leather and gilt. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~
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Ban flu, Man flu. Aching head, Bleary eyes, Death lurking, In disguise, Under the bed, What a surprise, **** off Death, I’m going to rise. No I’m not, I flop down, Head cushioned, In eiderdown, In the curtains, Face of a clown, In medication, Senses drown. I’m not dying, I am in a state, Snot and phlegm, I ******* hate, No latent desire, To ********** No appetite, I’m losing weight! I’m getting better, Weak as a lamb, A hot toddy, A wee dram, Man flu is real, Not a sham, Getting better, The **** I am. The fifth day, What a-to-do, So had enough, Of feeling blue, Death lost, So go ***** Getting dressed, I am its true. Man flu, Ban flu. © Paul Chafer 2014
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Feb 5, 2014
Feb 5, 2014 at 10:24 AM UTC
Flu
my ***** Little Secret, symbolized by ***** words and little idiosyncrasies and secret secret liaisons; je c'adore, laying Control alongside cast off clothing and kicked off wet ******* heartbeat aflutter beneath your oh so deliberate ministrations and thighs aquiver beneath your oh so deliberate teeth. my wrists chafe; bound by bitter steel to demure wood, powerless or rather entirely in your power. you've always loved it, the thrill of exploration, of Newfoundland, of conquer and subjugation and ravishment; your tongue flickering against my **** like eiderdown, fingertips tracing spirals and Möbius Strips upon my *******
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Apr 19, 2014
Apr 19, 2014 at 7:36 PM UTC
conquistador pt. 2
That happiest moments come in childhood When innocence combed ones hair And Saturdays bring respite Bedrooms lined with a few toys While two fair ground ballerinas Curtesy on a white wood mantelpiece. Then that snuggling down to sleep Under homemade feather eiderdown Hot lemon and sugar brought in a glass The certainty of mother's voice Climbing the stairs with wine gums. Even if time stretched patience It arrival brought only surprises And leaf rubbings on paper Were treasured achiements Displayed in cardboard mounts. Love Mary x
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Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 12:22 PM UTC
I think if I was to say
Lightly colored with painted kisses, humming harmonious hymns: The vital branches of our tree, such strength, unblighted! Your charity sustains me, the manna of my muse, Do you feel my fingertips as they glide across your cheek, My palm on your chin, your eyes upturned they settle and seize my attention. Stay not your caress, though in between us there may be a veil. Serpents in the short grass will not strike you as you pass, I've paid them for your safe passage, come to me, I crave only your touch. Here, let us only touch each other, No more is needed now, but skin, and silence, Let the wind carry away all pains and past sorrows. With your touch my agonies dissolve like a sweet treat in a moist mouth. With confidence I shrug off past limitations, Celebrations are even now being held in the core of my being. Your smiling spirit sends sympathetic vibrations when I am away. Restored are the comforts of past days, Eiderdown and slow burning sage, Before I knew your words were ever for me I fell deeply in love with your melodies. If I could, in my deepest passion prove the power of your touch It would mean so much if you could  understand. Like an assembled host of mighty magicians focused in concert Your hands work epic miracles, of soothing and creation. In the course of my rambles I have stumbled On sigils and symbols That have granted me a second sight And from you I see waves of light, In mingled colours sharply detailed patterns Of magnificent artistry, An aura of delightful pageantry That reveals your unparraleled self to me. Entrusted with the formula for happiness, I share this willingly with the hope you'll see, All I need to wake each day, is the nearest hope that we shall spend a moment together, So in touching, we may impart the many words left unsaid, The truths that would shatter our lips should we utter them.
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Sep 25, 2012
Sep 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM UTC
Truths
Lightly colored with painted kisses, humming harmonious hymns: The vital branches of our tree, such strength, unblighted! Your charity sustains me, the manna of my muse, Do you feel my fingertips as they glide across your cheek, My palm on your chin, your eyes upturned they settle and seize my attention. Stay not your caress, though in between us there may be a veil. Serpents in the short grass will not strike you as you pass, I've paid them for your safe passage, come to me, I crave only your touch. Here, let us only touch each other, No more is needed now, but skin, and silence, Let the wind carry away all pains and past sorrows. With your touch my agonies dissolve like a sweet treat in a moist mouth. With confidence I shrug off past limitations, Celebrations are even now being held in the core of my being. Your smiling spirit sends sympathetic vibrations when I am away. Restored are the comforts of past days, Eiderdown and slow burning sage, Before I knew your words were ever for me I fell deeply in love with your melodies. If I could, in my deepest passion prove the power of your touch It would mean so much if you could  understand. Like an assembled host of mighty magicians focused in concert Your hands work epic miracles, of soothing and creation. In the course of my rambles I have stumbled On sigils and symbols That have granted me a second sight And from you I see waves of light, In mingled colours sharply detailed patterns Of magnificent artistry, An aura of delightful pageantry That reveals your unparraleled self to me. Entrusted with the formula for happiness, I share this willingly with the hope you'll see, All I need to wake each day, is the nearest hope that we shall spend a moment together, So in touching, we may impart the many words left unsaid, The truths that would shatter our lips should we utter them.
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Wood smoke carries on the air The time driven memory Of ****** basics and soulful Earthy humankind Surrounding each personal cell and Lifting the arm-stretching power Of fire and the need to feel warmth The technology of modern man Is dashed on the rocks of time As we drift with the stench of our youth The well worn shoe and the eiderdown The hot water bottle and the candle Flickering and holding us with A knowledge of comforts And our understanding We live within this world and feel The circle of life that smells of Log fires in the autumn and the sooty Blackbird song of impending winter The warble and the peaceful heart of Everything we love as seasonal Mists and dancing flames keep us Wrapped in our primeval lives Will autumn bring a kind or hard winter No matter, we have coped with them all By Max Hale
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Nov 20, 2012
Nov 20, 2012 at 1:17 PM UTC
Autumn
This is about my Grandparents. They got married in the 1920's . . When one didn't get divorced. My Grandfather kept a diary, though he didn't know my Grandmother read it most days. He believed he'd been trapped into marriage, for much of their time together and was very bitter . . He failed to see what she was all about for a very long time . . Not the easiest marriage . . This is about that. Eiderdown Diary In previous prose The pages of my days Payed homage to my . . Crucified vows. What I thought love . Meant Ambition . . sold for scrap . . Traded for a shotgun wife's, Wed . locked . Bed . . . White lies in kisses A Mans need ******* two more souls From that sanitary bed before Work withdrew me . . . Fridays drank frustration dry Saturday screamed . . for Sundays relief . . My respite found in working weeks I drank her tears for years Bound by habitual responses Through disabled conversations . . Through polite goodnights I . . Sought Belief . . . Yet still washed Sundays Cars Then Pension planned retirement . . Though Circumstance a change My never mind Lady Beckoned . . Persuading The Cancer Degrading my Days away My shadow sipped her sun Became perfume in pages My Eiderdown Diary Morphine removed me Soothed me to Bed Time instead she said To understand . . Then Kissed my forehead . . Held me dead
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 12:33 PM UTC
Eiderdown Diary
Click them off like rosary beads with accossiated prayers. Smudge the dreams into the eiderdown, And divide them down in ironed out layers. Line them up and gobble them with listless tea. I am your prediction! (said in shushes, quite benediction) I want to drop like stingless bees. I am Addiction to Tranquility. How jealous I am! Watching him fall on his **** as I begin the solitary farce of trying to close my eyes. I watch his chest slowly sink and rise. How beautiful - to be cut down, like grass. Flophouse drapes of cigarette smoke hang from the ceiling in billows. A headache clings and holds me close as daylight stumbles like a ghost, and settles her questions on my pillows. The tragic thing about each morning Is that I greet each sleepy dawn with the dry and pinkened threat of tears. Sleepers – do you know the might of what you do each ******* night? The oblivion in half your years? The fiction of your wild frontiers? The obliteration and presentation of all your garbled Freudian fears? Do you know the glamour in what you do? Do you know what I’d give to be like you? To live and somehow not be here? To close my eyes? To disappear?
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Sep 2, 2013
Sep 2, 2013 at 9:24 AM UTC
insomnia
Chamomile lines In a cup filled with sorrow As they swirl, rise and burst your eyes burn on. Ice-blue, yet warm As the morning in winter Feels like I'm breathing dragons and walking through fields of silver. Spider web catches The rays of the sun Rising on the horizon, is it called a horizon because of the rising? Hawks drop and whirl It's all so romantic And it makes me feel sick to my stomach because I'm just a wandering girl... You're a beast in the den You're a wolf in the lair You're the wood for my fire You're the breeze in my hair But I never asked for a den And I wanted the lair for myself And my fire should be burning with coal not wood. And the breeze in my hair? Well that's just annoying The affection you lavish on me feels like cloying Reproaches from some kind of horrible clown All lathered and slathered in wet eiderdown It's leering towards me, its horrible face Lifts into a smile, an ugly grimace And I realise suddenly That my mind is painting grotesque scenes Over the beauty of the one that I love But then how do I stop it? How do I stop it? How do I stop it? You make me feel putrid We laughed when he said that Yet love lies niggling at my insides like a blister That I don't want And yet it's mine Mine All mine And I want to keep it Forever.
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Jun 23, 2015
Jun 23, 2015 at 11:00 AM UTC
Chamomile lines
White bird Half Intrascope Alerted by fire hypnotic Sapphire Realm Shifting Snow Shape starling In this for that for This Chirp Chirping In Deluxe stereo Daylight reliefs, lights of my ethereal France Dance, dancing Like soldiers, rock rocking Heavy, eiderdown beaten Shadows In temporary ride Into temporary flight
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Apr 8, 2016
Apr 8, 2016 at 1:51 PM UTC
White Bird
Early mornings With us wrapped In the wings of our sweat Ignoring the muted call of birds And the bright, Screaming Sun. I pull you close, Lose my fingers In the passion Of alligator eyes- The cheese sharp Scent of your **** Closed it's noose. And I found myself upon the floor craving a halo. But the saints are dead, and bleed like violins. The unmistakable relief Of your curves Are distant now; Where once we stalked the city's Whispering night; Now we entertain widows Full of secrets. Only distant eiderdown Holds our halo Holds our breath And monochrome death In relief of early mornings
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Mar 5, 2014
Mar 5, 2014 at 12:05 AM UTC
Early Mornings
Give me the shearling wool for silky feet; to ward off chills in this audacious cold. With eiderdown make all my slumber sweet and there tucked in, let all my dreams unfold. On lofty pillows high, let me recline, to cushion any pain that I might feel and let a good night's sleep at last be mine, that I, untroubled, may begin to heal. Let banshee winds around the casement wail, as fingers of the trees tap cold and dead, out on the windows, where the cold prevails. I will be safely nestled in my bed. How delicate I must appear to be! A sister to, "The Princess and the Pea".
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Jan 2, 2012
Jan 2, 2012 at 10:15 AM UTC
Shearling (A Sonnet)
(a poem for Christina-Taylor Green, who was born on September 11, 2001 and who died at age nine, shot to death ...) Child of 9-11, beloved, I bring this lily, lay it down here at your feet, and eiderdown, and all soft things, for your gentle spirit. I bring this psalm — I hope you hear it. Much love I bring — I lay it down here by your form, which is not you, but what you left this shell-shocked world to help us learn what we must do to save another child like you. Child of 9-11, I know you are not here, but watch, afar from distant stars, where angels rue the evil things some mortals do. I also watch; I also rue. And so I make this pledge and vow: though I may weep, I will not rest nor will my pen fail heaven's test till guns and wars and hate are banned from every shore, from every land. Child of 9-11, I grieve your tender life, cut short ... bereaved, what can I do, but pledge my life to saving lives like yours? Belief in your sweet worth has led me here ... I give my all: my pen, this tear, this lily and this eiderdown, and all soft things my heart can bear; I bring them to your final bier, and leave them with my promise, here. *** Published by The Flea, The Lyric, Copia Posterous, Elizabeth’s Ramblings, Legacy.com and Fullosia Press Keywords/Tags: Child, beloved, lily, eiderdown, psalm, shooting, gun, violence, massacres, 9-11, evil, NRA, guns, war, wars, hate, hatred
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Mar 2, 2020
Mar 2, 2020 at 12:55 AM UTC
Child of 9-11
i went to tipperary with its land so green with lots of different things that made a lovely scene there were hills and mountains and castles everywhere. lots of lakes and rivers i saw while i was there. i saw pipers playing such a lovely tune walking through the glen underneath the moon there was lots of grass as soft as eiderdown. clouds that looked like silk in tipperary town.
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 11:33 AM UTC
tipperary town
Setting up camp I am caught in the headlamps of some corporate tramps with the wings of the albatross stamped on their foreheads,and quickly they come at me firing their guns at me,out of the sun, I can't see them to clearly. Nearly got me that time I must be beware, corporate tramps get every where and try to disrupt me,corrupt me with credits and debits,in books I have read it that these are no good but sometimes I can't see the trees for the wood and they prey on the blinded and feeble and frail,they'll bang at your brain until they make a secure sale,it seems they can't fail, because we are bombarded with adverts perverting our minds,adverts that sell you all kinds of mindless monstrosities,colossal calamities and we **** on the corporate mammaries until we've had our fill, then we burp and slurp it all down. Welcome to the **** it and see almost but not quite free franchise town, need a gown.a duck down eiderdown,brown shoes,black shoes anyway you think you win they know you lose but buy it here,buy regurgitated,variagated beer here in the franchise town. 'come on down the price is right' the time is now you're going to die so spend and spend and how you please ,use your cards and we will bring you to your knees, Jeez it's depressionville,third turning past the bank of **** creek hill. It makes you want to **** something,someone,the corporations go on and on,before to long they will run out of space,then , option one kicks in and kicks you in the face and puts you down. Join the rest of us. in the almost but not quite free, buy me here,have a beer, franchise town
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Dec 14, 2013
Dec 14, 2013 at 6:27 AM UTC
Santa's other grotto
Setting up camp I am caught in the headlamps of some corporate tramps with the wings of the albatross stamped on their foreheads,and quickly they come at me firing their guns at me,out of the sun, I can't see them to clearly. Nearly got me that time I must be beware, corporate tramps get every where and try to disrupt me,corrupt me with credits and debits,in books I have read it that these are no good but sometimes I can't see the trees for the wood and they prey on the blinded and feeble and frail,they'll bang at your brain until they make a secure sale,it seems they can't fail, because we are bombarded with adverts perverting our minds,adverts that sell you all kinds of mindless monstrosities,colossal calamities and we **** on the corporate mammaries until we've had our fill, then we burp and slurp it all down. Welcome to the **** it and see almost but not quite free franchise town, need a gown.a duck down eiderdown,brown shoes,black shoes anyway you think you win they know you lose but buy it here,buy regurgitated,variagated beer here in the franchise town. 'come on down the price is right' the time is now you're going to die so spend and spend and how you please ,use your cards and we will bring you to your knees, Jeez it's depressionville,third turning past the bank of **** creek hill. It makes you want to **** something,someone,the corporations go on and on,before to long they will run out of space,then , option one kicks in and kicks you in the face and puts you down. Join the rest of us. in the almost but not quite free, buy me here,have a beer, franchise town
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I love you, you are mental. You are chicken oriental. I love you, cos ya off ya head, every night when we go to bed , getting silly , getting sentimental. beneath the quilt, ... (its continental) then I guess, we'll go to town, underneath the eiderdown.... I love you, my lovely mental case, i love your mental fkin face . i love you, cos you love me too, loving you's like having flu its like an affliction, much worse than addiction. much harder to quit, than drugs and **** ... my love for you is not necrotic, cannot be cured with an antibiotic, I guess what I'm saying is .. I love you though, .... ya not the biz. Been together, for many a year. can't belive, that I'm still here.... (c) mandy *** rigby 04/03/2014
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 8:27 AM UTC
For messed up lovers everywhere
~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ Yet, I admit, feel a tad uninspired. So I gently wave my hand towards two handmaids. Essha, a musician uses her nimble fingers to play the Harp with other, Semui who plays the flute, together creating a true aurelian tune. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ There is so much ahead that my eyes can see. Rings of still, clear waters around the green hills of near and far. Guards patrolling the high walls of my borders, Knights riding horses into my people's town. How it warms me to see them all smiling and laughing, going about their daily business. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ A brethren of sweet lilies in the vase shyly bob their heads, pouting their rosy lips which I gently stroke. Violets coiled around the bare feet of the caryatids, and pots of bluebells and dahlias by my own slippered feet. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ My star-kissed diadem, though resting on my curls, is caressed by the light as I turn my face towards the horizon. Deer dance in the shade of pure green, leaping over the silver streams, that murmur tales and secrets they hold within. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ And by the docks of my Aurelinaea, are many argosies with wooden bellies and creamy sails with many imports; of silks and velvets, satins and eiderdown; apricots and apples, plums and peaches, honeys, jams, syrups and jellies from fruits and flowers to heaps of sugars and spices, make-up, jewels, flower-bulbs and perfumes. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ And my personal favourites - a great assemblage of teas; herbal and cream, drinks and oils as well as an assortment of old tomes, Analects and books. I have a dream that mine own library would rival the fabled one of the once great Alexandria. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~
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Aug 4, 2018
Aug 4, 2018 at 7:48 AM UTC
~ ⚘⚪ Jasmine Pearls II ⚪⚘ ~
~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ Yet, I admit, feel a tad uninspired. So I gently wave my hand towards two handmaids. Essha, a musician uses her nimble fingers to play the Harp with other, Semui who plays the flute, together creating a true aurelian tune. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ There is so much ahead that my eyes can see. Rings of still, clear waters around the green hills of near and far. Guards patrolling the high walls of my borders, Knights riding horses into my people's town. How it warms me to see them all smiling and laughing, going about their daily business. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ A brethren of sweet lilies in the vase shyly bob their heads, pouting their rosy lips which I gently stroke. Violets coiled around the bare feet of the caryatids, and pots of bluebells and dahlias by my own slippered feet. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ My star-kissed diadem, though resting on my curls, is caressed by the light as I turn my face towards the horizon. Deer dance in the shade of pure green, leaping over the silver streams, that murmur tales and secrets they hold within. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ And by the docks of my Aurelinaea, are many argosies with wooden bellies and creamy sails with many imports; of silks and velvets, satins and eiderdown; apricots and apples, plums and peaches, honeys, jams, syrups and jellies from fruits and flowers to heaps of sugars and spices, make-up, jewels, flower-bulbs and perfumes. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ And my personal favourites - a great assemblage of teas; herbal and cream, drinks and oils as well as an assortment of old tomes, Analects and books. I have a dream that mine own library would rival the fabled one of the once great Alexandria. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~
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The strings of soft dusk breeze connects your thoughts to me And I vanish from the life Shiny moon smiles low Pretty stars fail to show I am marching with my lies You fly above the clouds oh wind, fly me there above The lights are all gone The quilt of eiderdown Covers my sorrow but mind quickly dreams your face I see wings on your arms you call my name and Lovely things of my eyes My love by my side Pleasant sights walking down the lane Candle blows, rooster crows Sun rises over the realm No more wings, no more you the dream falls soft like snow
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 10:55 PM UTC
Fluttering someone
I am falling Carded wool and eiderdown Muted hues in the resonant ghost of you My words drift Shadow soft before the deluge Of an angry sky I pray for rain Even though I cower under cover of your grace Myriad tears from heaven broken Etch the epitaph and rune stones Twist the light to brazen Blanched in acid Your brilliance blinds me Sunlight spilled on fallow ground I am soaked to the marrow Weathered and weary An the abyss whispers ever closer Embrace the profane till the flesh burns ashen *Nati sumus solus et nos solus perire Deo autem non est sine interiori lumine You follow me sombrous through the maelstrom Trade my hueless soul For the ecstasy of light **In raptu lumine vestit me *we are born alone and we die alone Without God there is no internal light **Clothe me in the ecstasy of light TL Boehm 11/13/2012
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Jan 29, 2015
Jan 29, 2015 at 6:30 PM UTC
Fade To Gray
Silent she slips in Resolute the new day Steps of eiderdown Path rendered muted echoes As sparkled snow sugars tongues of lovers A petaled hand extended Fragrant cherry blossoms The blush The rush Will cupids lacquered eros wax When the breeze of romance Roars ferocious Lions prowl on taloned claws frigid Before the frail Paschal lambs New birth awaits the cadence of spring rain And jonquiled mornings pregnant with dew Little girls skip minuets Plait the maypole Festive in buttered eyelet, whispered taffeta and crisp dotted swiss Dreaming of castles and gilt armor Bind this heart of mine in gold and champagne roses Love and gunfire burst on the palette of the night sky Sonic color settles shrieking freedom The haze of summer days The wind warm, your breath warmer She languishes heavy lidded Pine pitch fragrant in her hair and sweet strawberries in her mouth Fireflies flit teasing Tepid water waits for stain glass wings to grace the surface Taut the day holds her breath As rumbling thunder promises the cool monsoon Chase away the dog days when the atmosphere clings heavy Sleepless nights of croaking toads and the drone of mosquitoes Breathless for the heady patter of rain Herald the skies of burning blue Above a cacophony of color Cottonwoods in petticoats sunflower yellow Crimson maple and dusted ash Dance beneath the harvest moon Thankful Life is a gift to be unwrapped Surprise exquisite Like the first star sparkling on your horizon At the end of the day. TL Boehm 02/01/10
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 4:03 PM UTC
Breathe The Days
Silent she slips in Resolute the new day Steps of eiderdown Path rendered muted echoes As sparkled snow sugars tongues of lovers A petaled hand extended Fragrant cherry blossoms The blush The rush Will cupids lacquered eros wax When the breeze of romance Roars ferocious Lions prowl on taloned claws frigid Before the frail Paschal lambs New birth awaits the cadence of spring rain And jonquiled mornings pregnant with dew Little girls skip minuets Plait the maypole Festive in buttered eyelet, whispered taffeta and crisp dotted swiss Dreaming of castles and gilt armor Bind this heart of mine in gold and champagne roses Love and gunfire burst on the palette of the night sky Sonic color settles shrieking freedom The haze of summer days The wind warm, your breath warmer She languishes heavy lidded Pine pitch fragrant in her hair and sweet strawberries in her mouth Fireflies flit teasing Tepid water waits for stain glass wings to grace the surface Taut the day holds her breath As rumbling thunder promises the cool monsoon Chase away the dog days when the atmosphere clings heavy Sleepless nights of croaking toads and the drone of mosquitoes Breathless for the heady patter of rain Herald the skies of burning blue Above a cacophony of color Cottonwoods in petticoats sunflower yellow Crimson maple and dusted ash Dance beneath the harvest moon Thankful Life is a gift to be unwrapped Surprise exquisite Like the first star sparkling on your horizon At the end of the day. TL Boehm 02/01/10
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theres a blackbird in my garden he always sings to me sitting on the branches of my apple tree such a lovely song with a lovely tune melts my heart away as he begins to croon. he has a yellow beak and his eyes are brown his feathers they are black as soft as eiderdown he fills my heart with joy makes me feel so free makes everything so peaceful the way that life should be
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Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 at 9:46 AM UTC
blackbird song
coming home at half past dusk my body is so very weary my fingers are cold my tummy empty my thoughts are of home as i trudge my way through the darkness a darkness that falls like autumn leaves. from late afternoon the darkness settles on the ground starting with the sky it falls like a billowing eiderdown onto a cold autumnal bed twilight flutters and spiraling down it slips quietly between the streets filling fields covering in layer upon layer of blues and violet hues upon the houses and the buildings below tiny stars begin to glow as the sky turns to indigo dreams fall upon the cars and their lonely passengers radios on heater cranked to ten everyone yawning with wishes of home waiting for the lights to change commanders of stop and go the sentry lollipops are shining their beams that dazzle so bright like stars that burn my eyes as only i can see the mirage of wondrous colours its funny how the imperfections in my vision make the ordinary extra ordinary as i am blinded by something not real unreal more than ordinary glorious illusions of glittering light and as i slowly open and close my eyes playing with the beams to elongate bend and dazzle red, gold and  green blinking in disbelief at the traffic lights delight night falls and dutifully it carpets the world from work to home from home to work from work to home... ad infinitum coming home at the end of the day to the aroma of stew the warmth of love my key opens the lock to a temporary freedom and the so begins the unwinding of the machines fingers the hamster wheel stops at the door and gratitude fills my soul as i walk in through the real world portal dogs barking cats milling food laughter love yes this... and only this.... this is a joyous wage for a job well done
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Nov 5, 2023
Nov 5, 2023 at 11:37 AM UTC
homeward
coming home at half past dusk my body is so very weary my fingers are cold my tummy empty my thoughts are of home as i trudge my way through the darkness a darkness that falls like autumn leaves. from late afternoon the darkness settles on the ground starting with the sky it falls like a billowing eiderdown onto a cold autumnal bed twilight flutters and spiraling down it slips quietly between the streets filling fields covering in layer upon layer of blues and violet hues upon the houses and the buildings below tiny stars begin to glow as the sky turns to indigo dreams fall upon the cars and their lonely passengers radios on heater cranked to ten everyone yawning with wishes of home waiting for the lights to change commanders of stop and go the sentry lollipops are shining their beams that dazzle so bright like stars that burn my eyes as only i can see the mirage of wondrous colours its funny how the imperfections in my vision make the ordinary extra ordinary as i am blinded by something not real unreal more than ordinary glorious illusions of glittering light and as i slowly open and close my eyes playing with the beams to elongate bend and dazzle red, gold and  green blinking in disbelief at the traffic lights delight night falls and dutifully it carpets the world from work to home from home to work from work to home... ad infinitum coming home at the end of the day to the aroma of stew the warmth of love my key opens the lock to a temporary freedom and the so begins the unwinding of the machines fingers the hamster wheel stops at the door and gratitude fills my soul as i walk in through the real world portal dogs barking cats milling food laughter love yes this... and only this.... this is a joyous wage for a job well done
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Sit with me in the darkness On the edge of the eiderdown As your fingers turn the pages Let me be who I am. The fairies fly from pages And the horses ride to town My love for you is greater Than the stars on my wall. Love Mary ***
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Dec 16, 2018
Dec 16, 2018 at 4:21 PM UTC
In the darkness.
In another system on another star where we're worlds apart, and you, the maverick breaks another heart is when I see you greeting Peter at the gate which is yet another state in a different place a case of system overload and racing headlong to explode into a million different stars and black holes overflowing with quasars ( I don't know what quasars are but they're to be found around a different star) And still we kick against the night as if it might give in, the night where love lies thin on the eiderdown, the night in the shambles of a once proud town, we are the song out of tune, we may as well be seagulls winging it across the face of the moon.
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 9:08 PM UTC
The flight deck