Love means

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry”
from: Love Story (1970)

Love,
Who can describe
It’s meaning?
There exist metaphors
in the thousands,
more, still more,
The language is as
ancient as
love is
As varied
As mysterious
Each lover’s effort
to express the 
inexpressible 
Far easier to couch
what love does not mean
Not selfishness, not grasping
not prudence not
closeting, not demanding
and definitely not
“Never having to say
you’re sorry”

Ellecee

Day 14 - NAPOWRIMO 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Conversations

Quote - from: Love Story (1970

 

Clouds

 Clouds speak to her

Metaphorically of course

We all know clouds can’t speak

Don’t we?

Ellecee

Day 18 - NaPoWriMo - 2022
Inspired by a cloudy day

Voices

 I lie awake as

voices disappear

into the ether

Not a breath remains

only the memory

A dreadful torrent

of creeping insects

insidiously advancing

across my cerebral plane

I rise to rediscover anger

The dead corpses of past affairs

alter the flow of ink

from my reluctant pen

impelling evanescent magic

to live on parchment

Disinclined

to fade away

Ellecee

Inspired by

imaginary garden with real toads 

13 is Poetry - 13 words chosen from

Diane Setterfield’s The 13th Tale

To celebrate metaphor

(My words: disappear, lives, breath,memory,dreadful,rediscover)

(anger,alter,corpses,ink,magic,pass,away)

and

Skywriting - lie 

Flowers

She stumbled upon them in deep grass

two flowers blooming

Bright petals hidden

in plain view

Her never knowing how they grew

What seeds were planted

and when

Unbeknownst to her

yet

blending in

"ellecee"

Lost Son

She searched for him
in many gardens over time
among weeds and brambles
in overgrown spaces

Through years of not remembering
the first flush of pain
from his arriving
his thriving
our
surviving




"Ellecee"

Blank Pages

I lie here

on the blank page where you left me

Alone

Useless without your fingers, 

your hand,

moving me;

bringing something adequate

to life.

This living undiscerned by me

until the deed is done,

and I am alone 

again,

lying

on a

blank page.

"ellecee"

Inspired by today's prompt from

Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

Reincarnation

They're all dead

put the corpses on ice

who knows when

miracles happen

magic moods exist

in nature

time flies

we could rediscover

flesh and bones laughter

miracles happen

Ellecee

Today's challenge from imaginary garden with real toads

"choose 3 to 13 (nonconsecutive) words out of Setterfield’s quote

- use them in a poem that is a deliberate celebration of metaphor"

My choices are: laughter, flesh, bones, exist, rediscover, moods,

corpes, flies, nature, dead, ice, miracle, magic 

For