My attempt at free verse
Awaken, precious flower, For your buds are laved in dew Like beads upon your thorns, in the morning day of new For in your sweet essence,
When I am nothing but a cloud… and my memory old as rust; you will see me standing on the sh… you’ll feel me in the winds that g… You’ll hear my voice at midnight,
Everywhere the wind blows, you know my heart goes too For I look for you in the spring… and in the trees of apple orchard’… I look for you in winters rhyme,
Under barbs of brambled lies, dirt and dust mask the skies Where deceit taste of chocolate pi… and hells fury is sure to fry Oh how I weep, only to think,
I said a prayer for you, from very far away It reached the heavens high, God heard what I had to say I asked to keep you safe
I wayward fell in a freakish hell, to a place of discarded doom I wriggled and squirmed, then conf… no one was coming to my rescue There was fire and brim, burning b…
Whisper those things you love, about me darling dear Make me smile and softly weep, with your thoughts so lovingly cle… Then hold me gently,
Over the moon shines a beam, A resplendent heavenly light Within it’s hue I see my dreams, beyond the stars in yonder night One journey ends, another begins,
There is a wall of highest buil… that broke your heart and mind It slipped between blood and love and lost it’s silver line We had our day of fun and play,
Truths lie within the given book Gifted to all our souls be shook Lest slumbered eyes refuse to see, blind sightedness that lives in th… Rivers still flow into the streams
I hear the rain over quieted hi… the sound of water on my mind be s… I remember life in bright colors p… O how I long for yesterday There in spring time flowers bloom…
Yes, the winds of love still bl… and heat still melts the winters s… The robin still sings, the black b… Clouds billow across the skies in… The tide still ebbs from an aching…
In life’s wave of ebb and flow, there’s mountains high, and valley… Where eagles soar in endless skies… and natures wonders Grace our eyes… Flowers bloom on summers day,
Around the fire a heated ring Lips that meld, hearts that sing A dancing vision, to unfurl Skin of ginger, rich as pearl Loving sighs, moon of pale
Ever does the heartache, when in slumber it awakes, to hear the silence absence makes