A Girl For All Seasons~

In a box a girl of ivory, wrapped in golden foil

her hair in ringlet fairy tales adorned with dreams upcoiled

summer baby gives good skin, lips plump and ripe for kissing

her bend of hip a silken place, for you to rest in reminiscing

 

Out on a limb a girl in leaves, climbing through the branches

her autumn hands divine your past in scrolls, your future chances

she dives between your preconceptions, comes out the other side

bends your disillusion, says "I'm not your savior, just your guide."

 

In a cave a girl of rime, with honey covered hands

welcomes through her chimes of ice a decorated man

she feeds him songs in scales, no reason needed for this fare

he curls himself between her ribs, she says "Don't think, and just be there."

 

In a wreath of blossoms fair, her forehead ringed with tulips

a girl surmises all the pain she's caused, and all the bruises

without intent she's come to be a source of affirmation

whispering, "I’m just the sign, and not your destination."

 

 

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Author's Note

~sometimes we meet people who embody lessons we need to learn on this journey~the complications arise when one of the individuals understands that they are a arrow pointing while the other individual believes he/she has found the foundation on which to build a home~
there are just persons (totally admitting it) who weren't designed to have foundations built into their bones~

Reviews

[FireWoman]

"I'm not your savior, just your guide." & "I’m just the sign, and not your destination." Says it all~

Those two lines make this into what life is, teachers salted into our lives here and there, our job is to recognize them when they appear, then learn the lesson. However, when we meet such entities, "goodbye" is a very hard word, as we are leaving a piece of our naive selves behind to venture out into a world a little less brightly lit.
I totally agree that there are some, more than most think, that do not desire or fit into the society's norm category.

[My Fair Lady]

This is so good. Makes me smile a lot. Am so glad to have you.. an inspiration and friend.

[David W Moore III]

Dreamily written. Sometimes I feel like I still need the signpost and the foundation. Sometimes. You have a gift Selene. I'm sure you already know this. But you can present the most mundane ideas (not that you do) and dress them in the fantastical fairy tale/mythology trappings, taking the straight on angle and twisting it inside out (and slightly to the left) so that we have to twist our minds to read it. N the process not only do we see a whole new vision, but our minds are in turn excersized and expanded, allowing us to take a bit of your perceptions with us if only temporarily. Thank you.

[Matthew Kult]

Sometimes in this confusing world I need a guide to get me through, to show me through the ups and downs. I would love to have a foundation to build on, a foundation to sink my roots in and grow. To grow into the woman I know I can be and the woman I also wanted to be, but I just wander along as a little girl in a man's world. An excellent and touching write.

With Love,

Jaidyn

[Matthews Reggie]

more than the idea which i can relate to, the incredibly expressive and absorbing style of writing impressed me..... beautiful and meaningful expressions...... superb write.... loved this one.....

[alan peter kelly]

experience tells an individual what is what in the many signs / symbols / articulations entwined within each human interaction...blessed is every moment spent in bliss and if that moment passes into whispers then is no reason why they be mournful for nothing on this earth is designed to last especially in the same state as when it began...we are our own foundations...all we need do is survive each day...give and take...and remember the few / momentary pleasures that we have been afforded...another lovely write Selene x

Of course the sign is always in braille so you have to get up close and touch it and stuff before you figure out what it says.

[Kerry O'Connor]

Utterly beautiful in every line line. I love the imagination behind these girls, in ivory, leaves and rime, each more gorgeously described than the last. This has all the mysticism of the best kind of fairytale, direct from the collective consciousness of folklore.

[Robin]

Radiant ~

[Ed Hart]

yes, that can be a hard one for our hungry hearts; the problem being that some people are such treasures, we see them through our pirate eyes, and want to steal them away; but, treasure that they are, they belong to the wind...best learn to take those kisses on the fly, and settle peacefully in the pure and sad gratitude of it