Where Are Your Words?

Where have you been with your words
that you vowed to whisper softly
until they tumbled over the moon?
Tranquil images are all I can see
in your rhymes
that sank deep into the night
too soon.

Where are the eyes that lit up my world
and filled my pockets
with dreams of a life that shines?
I am realizing now
that what I once was
you have steadily changed
as you exhaled your lines.

Is my hope a golden thought
I love because it dwells
in my emotions
becoming a journey
where I drop to my knees,
spelling out words
then wonder where they lead
into my own circumstances?

Sometimes, when I sleep,
I glide over shells,
holding the hand of life,
forming collages, I could never forget
even when I am weary and I speak
of past things I should have forgotten
over the years.

Where have you been with your words
that make me smile in knowing
I have found my safe harbor
where I can be quiet
and revel in the tranquil images
you create
in my heart and soul?

Author's Note

For My Muse
Artist *Delphin Enjolras

Reviews

[R J Askew]

This is achingly beautiful in its wistful yearning from start to finish. The picture of the beauty reading is, for any poet, a vision of perfection. Yet the reader is reproachful in her questioning which implies failure, even betrayal perhaps on the part of the word wielder. The voice is alomst that of life to life, life craving something more, always something more, which in the end is not there. This sadness goes to the core of all we are. A very moving poem.

[fireblossom]

I can't find appropriate words...

[Ruth]

Nothing is plain and simple in this world or life...and Neva...you make that known in cascading rainbow coloured metaphor that knows only beauty! Gorgeous piece xoxo

[kdpgrahi]

I feel it something nostalgic. A feeling once I used to harbor/ You are excellent Neva

[Aidz]

For some reason I had a different feel to this while reading. not as in it is bad, far from it neva just a different subtext , longing no... Ill have to ponder

[nathan]

The first stanza is just. . .sublime

[nathan]

What!? Where do you come up with such beauty?
You truly must live in a land where sun and moon dance hand in hand in the sky and the stars wear suits :)
if this piece were a face, I would make a pilgrimage across the ocean just to kiss it.

[WhiteWillow]

I loved this piece! It flows nicely, from rememberance to what might be. Wonderful write.

[Cassie Fraga]

AMAZING!!! can feel the emotion here... very nice!! I appreciate this!!

[?]

This one is filled with such a longing
Written so beautiful as always

"Where are the eyes that lit up my world
and filled my pockets
with dreams of a life that shines?"

[Coyote Poetry]

A amazing poem and the artwork was beautiful. I like the repetition. Gave strength and purpose to the desire of the poem. Thank you for a outstanding poem.
Coyote