Padlocked Love So many padlocks Locked with love Each locked compartment Bursting at the seams Once upon a time the symbol of fidelity Lovers clipped them to a rail Threw … Continue reading Padlocked love
Category: love
Ravening beast?
What is love is it a ravening beast
Is it mainly lust on a body to feast
Does that longing and awe
Have to gnaw at the soul
Does it titilate the senses
Make us insane
What is love is it a ravening beast
Is it joy exquisite and misery ceased
Where is the balance between
The want and the need
The caring and sharing
On which it must feed
When is love just tender and pure
Not just longings we have to endure
Its tendrils are there to be nutured
To grow
In the early days of love lust
We know not what we sew
Maybe we learn from loves early mistakes
It’s important to survive those early heart breaks
To tame the heart of the ravening beast
To find eternal happiness
Is a goal we may never reach
Love is
Love is the joy,
Love is the motivator,
Love is the buzz,
Love is the decoy,
Love is the lance
stabbing the unwary,
Love is a dance,
Love can be bitter,
Love can be sweet,
Love can destroy,
Love can be a laser
cauterising the heart,
Love can be pain
tearing worlds apart,
Love can be bitter,
Love can be sweet,
Love can be dark
twisted with blight,
Love can be bright
radiating light,
Love is an emotion
hard to define,
Comes in many guises,
Wilt thou be mine,
Love is the bell weather,
Love the holy grail,
If its missing we think we failed.
© Samantha Beardon
Heart the metaphor
What is this about the heart An illusion in love, used so much in art Songs and sonnets, plays and books Breaking hearts, heart sick Love is a product of … Continue reading Heart the metaphor
Stars realign
A Villanelle
Dark days become nights the stars don’t align
in this nightmare world of retrograde time
Stare into the cosmos look for a sign
Spiral out of control, lost life’s design
You were my anchor now gone such a crime
Dark days become nights the stars don’t align
Need to find a new path draw a new line
Not play the fool, in futile pantomime
Stare into the cosmos look for a sign
Days feeling like weeks dreams seem borderline
My home no longer my haven sublime
Dark days become nights the stars don’t align
Break free from bad feelings must not resign
My love is worth more than a tumbling dime
Stare into the cosmos finding a sign
Love all encompassing, truly divine
waiting to find me, yours was a mime
light days become nights the stars realign
Stare into the cosmos yes there’s a sign
S. Beardon © 2017
Bridge….. a Clogyrnach
The clogyrnach (klawg-ur-NAWK’) is one of the 24 traditional Welsh poetry forms. It is a stanzaic, syllabic and rhymed form. Each stanza consists of 32 syllables and two rhymes. It can be written three different ways, in 6, 5, or 4 lines, as described below.
This is not a difficult form to craft, but if done with care it can create some amazingly beautiful works. Here are the three patterns which may be used:
(1)
x x x x x x x A
x x x x x x x A
x x x x B
x x x x B
x x B
x x A
(2)
x x x x x x x A
x x x x x x x A
x x x x B
x x x x B
x x B x x A
(3)
x x x x x x x A
x x x x x x x A
x x x x B
x x x x B x x B x x A
Bridge
Bridge of sighs new water flowing
Beautiful scene soft and glowing
Mirrors emotions
Feels like devotions
Love notions now showing
Bridge of sighs love has vanished
Scene now grey beauty banished
All I see is you
Now you are taboo
A bright view tarnished
Beautiful bridge flowing stream
I see you clearly in my dream
A pointer to life
Don’t get stuck in strife
Love’s drive is just one theme
New
Can you match me measure for measure
will you be sensitive to my pleasure
can you pull me, out of a web of distrust
you planted seeds and nurtured their growth
cared so much, brought loving close
new love new set of feelings
exciting romance, to expunge past dealings
trying to trust and believe anew
wanting so much, for new love to be true
going slowly taking my time
hoping for partnership truly sublime
love and laughter, joy and gladness
honesty, communication, pleasure without malice
old love, bad memories thwarted
new love, new memories supported
Padlocked Love.
Padlocked Love
So many padlocks
Locked with so much love
Each locked compartment
Bursting at the seams
Once upon a time
the symbol of fidelity
Lovers clipped them to a rail
Threw away the key
Thousands of padlocks
Sitting in a row
A sign of relationships
Waiting time to grow
Years pass by and the
world begins to tarnish
Locked to the rail
With no hint of varnish
Could we view those couples
Starting off brand new
Ten years on how many
Are still true
Are they welded close
Like the padlock on the rail
Or split assunder the lock
All atrail?
© Samantha Beardon
Sparkling frost warmed by the sun
My love is not of the springtime
Blossoms, nesting birds and new born lambs
Rising sap and sprouting leaf
Nor is it the love of summertime
Bursting buds, showy flowers, perfumed air
Hot wind, heating the skin
It is not the love of autumn
Falling leaves, rain and cold wind
Hot and cold alternately
My love is of the winter
Sharp sparkling frost warmed by the rays of the gentle sun
Cold outside but inner warmth sitting by the cracking flames
Heady lust has settled
Looking for new pastures has waned
Now the warmth of friendship, the bond of trust
Shared dreams, laced with humour.
Lay your head on my heart
Lay your head on my heart
Feel the beats stop and start
Our mind pictures blending
the feelings we are tending
feel the warmth of my skin
it must be win win
Reach out to me
Feel the beats stop and start
describe your feelings
in this time we are stealing
a time free to care
we have little to spare
Lay your head on my heart
Examine joys from the coffer
take the key
unlock possibilities
Lay your head on my heart
Feel the beats stop and start
