Reflections of Poetry...#10

Crimson Fields…

 

In a fields of red poppies caressed by a summer

breeze   

surrendering to twilight.

 

A union created by Mother Nature is quickly 

blending dark and daylight.

 

Among the crimson meadow of blossoms

stands an old man watching the sun as its

golden orb begins to

 hide behind a tawny sea.

 

Art brushes, paints and canvas in hand he follows

a narrow trail to his boat anchored at waters edge,

his story now woven in color about life, as he believed

it should be –

 

Peaceful

Contented

Free

 

©2010.elizabethannjohnsonmurphree

 

Books by Author at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com:

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• 1.      Fragments of Time
• 2.     A Passage into Madness
• 3.     Asterial Thoughts
• 4.     A Sachet of Poetry
• 5.     Rutted Roads
• 6.     Rhythm Rhyme and Thoughts
• 7.     Reflections of Poetry
• 8.     Beyond the Voices
• 9.     Honeysuckle Memories
• 10.  Echoing Images from the Soul
• 11.A Journey into the Soul

Book Promotion - Honeysuckle Memories - #9

 Acceptance…

The future and its viewless things,

That undiscovered mystery.  Will

We feel death’s lifeless wings.

No one wants these ending things,

If so, it would be a lie.  I hide behind

Curtained windows to keep the

World from seeing my dying eyes.

My face bathed in the dew of morn,

Before me the snowy landscape

Spreads.  This is the world in which

I was born, the world which will be

Gone from me when I am dead.

Sick of this wasted body, the mortal

Strife, the pain of taking a breath.

Now sorrow is the course of my life,

My soul combats with death.

I pray for calmness within me, please

Let it grow, before my wilted spirit must

Go.  Life is beginning to be all too clear,

I am not afraid, for soon I will be gone

From here.

©2013.elizabethannjohnsonmurphree.honeysucklememories 

Books by Author at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com:

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1.       Fragments of Time

2.       A Passage into Madness

3.     Asterial Thoughts

4.     A Sachet of Poetry

5.     Rutted Roads

6.     Rhythm Rhyme and Thoughts

7.     Reflections of Poetry

8.     Beyond the Voices

9.     Honeysuckle Memories

10.  Echoing Images from the Soul

11.  A Journey into the Soul

Echoing Images from the Soul...#8

 

https://www.amazon.com/Echoing-Images-Soul-Journey-into/dp/1500366811/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=echoing+images+from+the+soul&qid=1601246500&s=books&sr=1-1

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Beyond the Voices...#7

 

Black Gallows…

Is it a dream that I  feel free among the cool woodland

foliage,  The river murmurs to me of desire as with Pan and

Dionysus in the Greek satyrs.  It is pleasures that they bring,

like dragonflies threading through the woods to sing.

 

In the wine of daylight willows shiver and quiver along the

long black river.  In the evening the breeze delights the

earth, before the hell-red sky disappears with the setting

sun.  I no longer felt myself as shadow flowers gleaming in the

scented twilight.

 

The black gallows moaned near the calm black water, its

scaffolding embroidered with black moss and the silence

of my eternal voice sounded endless as…I hung there.

©2020.elizabethannjohnsonmurphree

#BlackGallows #Woodlands #Foliage #Satyrs #Pleasures #Dragonflies #Dionysys #Greek #River #Hell #Dying #Poetry

Asterial Thoughts...#6

 

Asterial Thoughts is a journey into my life as a poet, a life of fear and thought.

#MentalHealth #Depression #Sadness #Spirit #Anger #Children #Despair #Sorrow #Grief #Death #Loneliness