Between mind and heart

Between mind and heart

24 February 2016

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The leaves in tight row

Bordered the alleys that wound

In between patches

Within my bosom clearings

Sat in toasty clusters of thought

 

Compact flowers shone

Sturdy milk white petunias

All cramped within pots

Tepid ideas roamed slow

In mind’s glowing flushed harbours

 

Warm winds blowing hard

Mixed petunias and green leaves

Left nothing untouched

Steady confusion of mind

Made patchwork of ideas

 

The dust riding fast

Sweaty summery playgrounds

Sweltering desert

Pieces in taut memories

Grew hot blizzard in my soul

 

The Earth cried out loud

She recognized not her pair

Earth and sky repelled

A heated debate ensued

Between rigid mind and heart

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Written in the context of Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge. Ping back and rules here

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-85-tightwarm/

 

Lights & Motion – The March (Official Video)

 

 

Particles to keep

Particles to keep

21-22 February 2016

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The fog clung to him

Like a parasite on beast

That shuddered anew

Confusion reigned in bosom

Replicating dormant fears

 

The moon high in sky

Glistened on frozen landscapes

Colour of silver

Within my heart the stillness

Shone with steely glint’s tremors

 

The clouds soft whispered

To pregnant skies that would weep

Particles to keep

Like uncertain skies I shed

Secrets of life that we dread

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Too much Heaven – Bee Gees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYaBRhIqpDU

Know thyself

Know thyself

20 February 2016

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The dark smarts

Hooded shadows roam

Within night

Their feet slight

Their footsteps lost in silence

Of the blackened arts

 

The stories

Flowers in bouquet

Some radiant

Some wilted

Series of experiences

All set in the growth

 

Memories

Cast in blue windows

To the soul

There is trail

The heart wizens as I fail

To harken to both

 

Listening

To clicks of the safe

Haven found

Give the keys

Crawl indoors upon your knees

Eat me and grow tall

 

Watch me fall

With the winter’s sleigh

Downhill ride

Upon snow

Of white feathers plucked out slow

Breaking my bad bone

 

Clutch it hard

Wish upon my chest

Of treasures

I store none

I gave once my very best

Now I am pauper

 

In life’s game

There are knights and pawns

Some visit

Royal lawns

Others like window shopper

Roam empty handed

 

There is shame

In stolen limelight

Fake varnish

Withered ends

If you lie you make amends

To name you tarnish

 

Know thyself

Meeting at midnight

Clarity

Soul’s delight

In the twining horizons

Watch grow your own light

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Beautiful Boyz – CocoRosie

Lost girls – CocoRosie

We are on fire – CocoRosie

Fairy paradise – CocoRosie

Gallows – CocoRosie

Lemonade – CocoRosie

 

 

Freelancer

Freelancer

20 February 2016

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They work blind

Their tools are hammers

Mouth unkind

Sullen face

Words they spew are of disgrace

For crushed soul stammers

 

Shadow race

They crawl the Earth slow

High and low

Is not theirs

Like sparrow announcing rain

They scrape tides of pain

 

Others fly

Wings beacon of light

Soaring high

In the sky

Illuminating the night

Round the clock daytime

 

Merry hearts

Their high-pitched songs float

Above gloom

They shun doom

Silken sound ushered from throat

Life stills as it starts

 

I stand poised

Neither here nor there

In between

Light’s slices

There is more to it then seen

Balance to lead dance

 

Who should win

In love all is fair

I ponder

Freelancer

Recklessly casting dices

Leaving it to chance

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard – Now we are Free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-dJKerk_UE

Breaking through

Breaking through

19 February 2016

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Wandering

In thoughts that shiver

Cold of World

That darkens

She stitches another yarn

Pitch black before dawn

 

Other half

Like jigsaw puzzle

I pick up

My pieces

A mirror broken in skies

Where I see through lies

 

Our hearts roam

Through the bitterness

Salted tears

Like sea’s foam

Lapping at our waking frames

Humanity’s games

 

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A blast wakes

I cry as it shakes

Illusion

Mind’s playground

Softly killing me he sighs

As the dreamtime dies

 

I know life

Like butter on toast

And lemon

Acid stings

Souls on life’s fire often roast

Soaring flames like wings

 

Working spells

From my hidden wells

I summon

Deadly rings

A ghostly place where he sings

Songs of Unity

 

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This dream’s realm

A slave’s marathon

I conjure

Hammer’s might

Broken ties I take to flight

I am running free

 

The saviour

Lies but within me

He flutters

Gaping hole

My soul ushers in its twin

Finally we’re whole

 

Breaking through

It comes with a price

Nailed across

No haggling

I paid it now more than thrice

Trinity’s auction

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Little boy in the grass – Aurora

Conqueror – Aurora

Murder song – Aurora

Half the World away – Aurora

I hear you calling (ballad version) – Aurora

Running with the wolves – Aurora

 

Into the light – Aurora

 

Playing with the light

Playing with the light

19 February 2016

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We hold flames

With our naked hands

Worded hope

Destiny

They warm our frames or scorch them

One matter twin views

 

A beacon

To follow the strands

Of Phoenix

Purity

We gather feathers fallen

As the bird renews

 

Reckoning

From future displayed

Understand

Glorious past

Misconception a new trend

Gathered momentum

 

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Hold my hand

Feel the energy

My lifeline

Crosses heart

Let me infuse you sweetness

Before I depart

 

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I fear not

We shall travel safe

Hearts in peace

Minds at ease

Swift and soft like summer breeze

Entering morrows

 

Golden sands

Speak of timeless age

Gone the rage

Only love

Look and see the weeping dove

She cries for freedom

 

Addendum

Wistful points declared

Afterthought

In hindsight

As the mind and soul connect

Playing with the light

 

Reading of the poem:

New reading trial with music: 

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With you I never lose – Athlete

Hurricane – Athlete

Half-light – Athlete

Near light – Olafur Arnalds

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjA0M9YV5eA

La plaie en mon seing écorche l’écriture / The wound in my seal flays the writing

La plaie en mon seing écorche l’écriture

(English translation below the French videos by Julien Clerc)

18 February 2016

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Le pas leste feutré mon ombre me précède

Le printemps est là, le temps des cerises

Rebondissements las, conter les surprises

Le cœur vif outré, voyez je ne cède

 

Le cœur démembré ne sait point remède

Le monstre le Horla me prépare traîtrises

Sous lames de prélat enterrer vies grises

Les stries rouges zébrées sort du ciel qui m’aide

 

J’ai souffle en mon sein délicates nervures

De tollé de peurs construire un chemin

Rougir les dessins écarlates zébrures

 

D’enivrantes vapeurs saouler parchemin

La plaie en mon seing écorche l’écriture

Conter les douleurs rouge vif en carmin

 

Lecture du poème: 

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Les Séparés – Julien Clerc

Si j’étais elle – Julien Clerc

Ma préférence – Julien Clerc

 

 

The wound in my seal flays the writing

18 February 2016

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With hushed nimble step my shadow before me arises

Spring has arrived, it is cherry blossom days

Unexpected twists, a tale of surprises

The bright heart outraged, see how my mind never sways

 

The dismembered heart knows no remedy

The monster the Horla is preparing treachery

Under prelate blades we bury gray lives

Zebra red streaks magic of heaven that with me connives

 

I have breath in my breast delicate arteries

From fears outcry construct a road

To redden the etchings scarlet striped welts

 

From intoxicating vapors make drunken parchment

The wound in my seal flays the writing

Storytelling sufferings from bright red to carmine

 

Reading of the poem:

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Bringer of the light

Bringer of the light

16 February 2016

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She sits calm

Pondering life’s ways

As Time flows

Like rivers

Our souls go through highs and lows

In dancing waters

 

Sometimes fast

Sometimes inching ants

We let rants

Broken past

Separate our hearts that beat

Quick admit defeat

 

The knowledge

It comes slow steady

Into minds

Waking souls

Of the chosen few ready

To live on the edge

 

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He lived thrill

His words harsh mouth shrill

Skull beating

The heart numb

Errors of past repeating

His memory played dumb

 

We light skies

With crazed fireflies’ glow

Or dead stars

Throbbing lies

Bursting out of mind’s control

To clean mess takes hours

 

The clock sighs

As it counts seconds

Turning slow

Centuries

Two were to bear it the flame

Now one scurries lame

 

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Phantom twin

Runs lone for the win

Ghostly foot

Joins the race

In pairs we face less disgrace

Battered time relay

 

He turns meek

His lessons now learnt

The soul burnt

Forged by change

He offers strong other cheek

Forgiveness not strange

 

Each other’s

Tutor and pupil

Lessons pour

The heart’s fill

Winning humility’s sight

Bringer of the light

 

Reading of the poem: 

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A big thank you to Hector (https://fromcoldtofire.wordpress.com/ ) for his introduction to Paolo Nutini

One Day – Paolo Nutini

Don’t let me down – Paolo Nutini

No other way – Paolo Nutini

Recover – Paolo Nutini

Scream (Funk my life up) – Paolo Nutini

Better man – Paolo Nutini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsx-JVymaGk

Like milk and honey

Like milk and honey

16 February 2016

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We will meet quiet

Where snowdrops once pierced in birth

On snow powdered cliffs

 

Chalk white images

Dance in playgrounds of my mind

Glassy retina

 

Double leap of faith

Continuous pace of dream

Into ether’s cream

 

A dip into blue

Velvety home to my kind

Raised in buttermilk

 

Waters will wash off

Age-old fluid cleansing tool

The condensed sorrow

 

I wrap around you

In smooth effortless fusion

Like milk and honey

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Written in the context of Ronovan writes Haiku Challenge. Ping back and rules here

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-84-milksmooth/

 

Wish you were here – Bliss

Edvard Hagerup Grieg – Sissel Kyrkjebo – Solveig’s Song from “Peer Gynt”

Homeland – Sissel & Prince Igor

Fallen – Delerium & Rani

 

As leaves shrivel brown

As leaves shrivel brown

15 February 2016

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Rasping breath

I barely control

Life inches

Away slow

As I gift its every glow

Consumption my deed

 

Waiting death

She pays never heed

To self-pity

Her mouth grim

Her face marble as eyes swim

Serendipity

 

We once could

Be token of hope

Building light

Heart of might

I stumble more than I cope

With weight of wording

 

Literal

Prose and poetry

Woven bright

Through the night

The wand of age old wisdom

Words raising kingdom

 

Emerging

Two towers creep slow

From sands’ depths

Into skies

They bring truth where there were lies

End blood spent in waste

 

Burning trees

Within my bosom

Speak of fires

And wasteland

Oxygen for volcanoes

Disrupt blood and air

 

He whispers

Of breath that will cease

His hand soft

His cheek gaunt

His very touch daily taunt

As leaves shrivel brown

 

Reading of the poem:

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Pergolesi – Stabat Mater (complete/full) – Nathalie Stutzmann & Philippe Jaroussky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzOmPUu-F_M