Musical Memories

Oh, how did I forget flecked fields of white
where fairest petals synchronized their dance,
and beauty’s cadence sung to ears romance,
as Monet’s clouds rose lilting notes to heights?
Oh, how did I forget fanned butterflies 
adrift on breezes sunned in Mexico?
Their bright-hued wings flirting with blooms below 
when silent gazes held in lover’s sighs.

Old love songs stir up voices in my mind -
sounds of our music and your windblown ways,
our soulful rhythm from forgotten days,
my lullaby on darkest nights unkind.
Come now, I long to see you at my door
for love's embrace in dance forevermore.

written 6/23/15
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Goldsmith Avatar
May 30, 2020 at 12:30 PM
Congratulations on your win. Beautiful--- from the butterflies in Mexico to "I long to see you at my door for love's embrace in dance forevermore." Enjoy your win and day...........
Johnson-Saunders Avatar
May 30, 2020 at 7:53 PM
Thank you, Paula...I appreciate your kind words! I hope you are having a blessed weekend, xx Rhonda
Pandit Avatar
May 29, 2020 at 9:14 AM
Beautifully done, Rhonda--so well written! Congrats on your TOP win.
Johnson-Saunders Avatar
May 30, 2020 at 7:50 PM
Thank you, Vijay...very kind of you! Blessings, Rhonda
Thirtyseven Avatar
March 27, 2017 at 7:58 AM
Great words, my fav bit being "windblown ways".
Martin Avatar
March 9, 2017 at 12:48 PM
Like the reference to Monet's clouds and the great flow in this poem. Congratulations Rhonda! :-)
Inman Avatar
March 9, 2017 at 6:43 AM
Rhonda, this is beautiful.
Vinson Avatar
March 8, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Ah, such facility, Rhonda. : ) I think the reader easily gets the feelings you intended, and is indebted to you.
Carmack Avatar
March 7, 2017 at 11:22 PM
Have not had one of your poems in a contest of mine in some time, glad to have you back. Congrats.
Marcum Wong Avatar
July 23, 2015 at 5:52 PM
Your imagery stars in this romantic sonnet Rhonda. It is beautiful!
Nunez Avatar
June 25, 2015 at 7:40 PM
An exquisite sonnet, Rhonda. I love all the lines! A 7. Hugs!
Pinet Avatar
June 24, 2015 at 6:20 PM
A odd to the beauty of your love, not demanding or begging, but a easy flow of words that opens the heart and lets the music flow. Emile.
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