Our dVerse prompt tonight for Poetics comes from Mish
Today I am asking you to write a poem about one memento. You may use a souvenir from your travels, a photo, a keepsake from a special moment or event, perhaps a small token that is dear to your heart. Let it channel the emotion and significance that it holds for you. Give us a little piece of your past, a glimpse of who you are. If you find this perspective too personal, feel free to use a fictitious memento and/or voice.
photo by me of my then ‘wife to be’ on the beach at Portmeirion 1985
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as the camera found you in that pose
sinking like a tai chi master
into the sandy earth
at one with it all
the shutter fired
echoing the last glow of the sun
light touched us both in that moment
and landed squarely on the film
love beckoned us
a universal wave
gently lapping at the shore
of our life to be
‘come in’ it said
all will be well
that evening as we lay together
doing the deep soul eye dance
and touching each other
with exquisite newness
and with such reverence
a door opened and a seed was planted
and we the gardeners of this bliss
we knew
that life was unfolding to another level
9 months on
garden provides harvest
then we two became three
now we are five
and you
you are still
the light in my life
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I love the way your poem starts with a pose and ends with a declaration of love, Paul, Favourite liens:
‘the shutter fired
echoing the last glow of the sun
light touched us both in that moment
and landed squarely on the film’
you have truly captured the peace, serenity ,stillness of that time and yet at also the life ahead with its energy and passion ahhhh…….i feel held and cradled by the words you have written …Mrs Scribbles ( logged in as Me) X
I liked the universal wave of love lapping on the shore of your lives.
Oh, YES. Just so beautiful. That light, perfection.
What a romantic you are, brother. You had me at the emotional draw & power of photography. Since my retirement, photography chronicles my travel & creative artistic whims. What joy to pour over thousands of images (remember the expense of the 35mm & slide days?) & recall those moments, those days.
This is so moving as your love story develops and brings new life, but the ending was what I so wanted to read at the end. How beautiful!
How romantic, from the photo, that shutter moment, until the children came ~ Precious keepsake Paul ~
She knows she is still the light in your life; a tribute to romance after years of marriage..
A romantic sigh, fills me, as I read this poem, Paul, hoping I can find someone, who’s special like you have. Do hope your wife, has seen and read this poem, as a tribute, to your shared love.
“gardeners of this bliss” ~ so beautifully put. ❤
This is wonderful, from that first moment a story of many lives… like a sapling growing to a tree.
What a beautifully written personal journey.
This is absolutely exquisite! A beautiful ode to the love you’ve experienced and the ability of love to grow and expand through time, in a journey with life’s partner. Beautiful!
doing the deep soul eye dance – this gave me goosebumps
What an exquisite tribute to a love enriched by time. Beautiful.,
you have truly captured the peace, serenity ,stillness of that time and yet at also the life ahead with its energy and passion ahhhh…….i feel held and cradled by the words you have written …
Nessa X
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What a beautiful poem for your love!
A beautiful poem and memory held in the photo 🙂