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Be Still
Whispered words arriving on teardrops of the wind
They call to me
Embracing me so that I may exhale
For a moment in time
I look down to see the child woman curled up on my lap
Quietly dreaming
I stroke her sleep dampened hair and
Caress her cheek gently with my palm
Oh, child of mine
Allow me to reach in and
Cradle your wounded heart
Let me carry your pain and worry
Stirring, she turns her face revealing
A half-eyed sleepy smile
A gift I have treasured for centuries
Remembering the day
I walked through the trees of time
Lime, emerald, forest green, moss, juniper, ochre, and kiwi
Yellow tinged velvet leaves ride silver breezes
Tree people
Miraculous sacred creatures
Birthed of mother nature
Beckon me onward and inward
Towards water’s edge where moving mirrors of
Intellect and mystery await me
I walk with my companion who rides on my shoulder
The white hawk of my dreams
Narrating our passage through space and time
Howl Howl Howl
Stories above me, monkeys wearing fur
Play and swing
Screeching, flying, and tumbling through the air
Reaching sacred river’s edge
I pause and hear silent footsteps
Of the others joining
I gaze at the flowing water
Reflections of the lost ones float by
Faces of those who have passed from this life
I reach out and kiss each one with my fingertips
All of us gather ~ standing and joining hands
Collectively we reach up towards the heavens
We rise as one
Taking a moment to listen and
Receive grace from one another
A glimpse and a grin are shared
As I squeeze the weathered hand
Of my fellow human
Up Up Up Up
We float above the majestic green canopy
A glorious carpet of
Lavender clouds awaits
The day moon and the day sun kiss
As they watch us rise
A moment of gratitude shared by all
POTD
9/12/2023
In another time and age
we could have written a new page
crossing paths on land or sea
brushing cheeks with destiny.
With youthful zest and joy
our ardent quills employ
to mix your ink with mine
with passion so divine
and then the words would flow
to set each heart aglow.
If our souls could sing and rhyme
beyond the horizon of time
to mirror our words with perfection
with utmost sincerity and affection
to bring distinct colours and shades
we seal a bond that will not fade
as we reach for eternity
bathing in blissful affinity.
Mirrored thoughts on a new page
in another time and age.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
A Paul Callus & Red Fiery collaboration
© 2016
~Love And Peace~
(Mirrored Hourglass)
Pray God for love, peace today
Love comes from the Lord
He sets us all free
Changes all hearts
Makes us strong
His love
His love
Makes us strong
Changes all hearts
He sets us all free
Love comes from the Lord
Pray God for love, peace today
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
June.29.2016
~Author's Notes:
The "Mirrored Hourglass" is a poetry style created by
George L. Ellison.
Imagine someone finished all your thoughts
and never failed to share your point of view.
Would your reflection really be your own
if one you mirrored also mirrored you?
I think it would be nice to be real close
to someone else, but picture him your clone. . .
If one you mirrored also mirrored you,
would your reflection really be your own?
I saw a show about a pair of twins.
They’ve stayed the same in all they say and do.
Would your reflection really be your own
if one you mirrored also mirrored you?
What mystery or fun in partnerships
if there were always everything foreknown?
If one you mirrored also mirrored you,
would your reflection really be your own?
If bonds of love were colors, could they thrive
if they remained the one same constant hue?
Would your reflection really be your own
if one you mirrored also mirrored you?
If you reflected someone flesh and soul. . .
Together would you not still be alone?
If one you mirrored also mirrored you,
would your reflection really be your own?
I would not like to know my whole sweet life
were being lived by not just one, but two!
Would your reflection really be your own
if one you mirrored also mirrored you?
For the Mirror Poetry Contest of Nathan A
I see an aging Panagiota with the soul of a youth.
Untouched by hatred~yet despised for, as she's always telling the truth.
Utterly, unwilling to be a crowd pleaser.
She has grown to know the hollow emptiness of being a groupie-gratifier.
A big Heart to her, counts more than the brilliance in any word play in the head.
She loves poetry of Shakespeare that throngs here consider quite dead.
She knows the arrogant here who knock at her heart's door, oh my so loud?
And evaporate quickly,as insignificant raindrops after a storm followed by a golden-bright cloud!
She knows the hopelessness of playing life's little victim.
With the onset of great pain, hardship and lonelines,she blossoms, right as rain.
Threatened by males here to "change her poetry style or else,"
These macho nobodies have lit her soul afire, nothing more ignorant delights to ainspires her.
She knows quite well the legion of names of the BEST who ignore her.
She really doesn't care, she realizes she is, indeed, first and forever,God's poetic daughter.
You won't find thousands of one-line poems from her.
She wants her poetry to make your velvety-heart positively beat loudly and almost purr.
This is the self in the mirror, I have found at Poetry Soup.
No big arm of trophies nor winner am I, just an ordinary woman, with her quill in glory, acknowledging God in the sky.
To God be the Glory. Thank you, close friends and ones yet to come....
All my love~
Panagiota Romios
February 5, 2020
7:00am PST
POTD. February 7, 2020
~Love And Peace~
(Mirrored Hourglass)
Pray God for love peace today
Love comes from the Lord
He sets us all free
Changes all hearts
Makes us strong
His love
His love
Makes us strong
Changes all hearts
He sets us all free
Love comes from the Lord
Pray God for love peace today
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
July.21.2017
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV)
- Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer
Romans 12: 12 ( NIV )
-The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Exodus 14: 13 ( NIV )
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
~Author's Notes:
The "Mirrored Hourglass" is a poetry style created by
George L. Ellison.
~ In His Light~
( Mirrored Hourglass )
Love trust Lord and test His way
Lord won't leave you alone
His mercy will show
When with Lord stay
In His Light
You'll walk
You'll walk
In His Light
When with Lord stay
His mercy will show
Lord won't leave you alone
Love trust Lord and test His way.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2017
August.22.2017
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV)
- Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer
Romans 12: 12 ( NIV )
-The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Exodus 14: 13 ( NIV )
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain-
~Author's Notes:
The "Mirrored Hourglass" is a poetry form or style created by George L. Ellison
Mirrored Refrain
xaBA,xbAB,xaBA,xbAB
x represents the only lines that do not rhyme in this poem. A & B represent the refrain!
Linda-Marie
Angelic force,
draping over me, her canopy.
Unmasking the wonder of this youngster,
her spirits alive within me
You helped erect my "secret window"
Ambitiously chasing what I hunger!
Her spirits alive within me,
unmasking the wonder of this youngster!
Our poetry sessions, I sit and reminisce.
Stress free, under this willow tree
Unmasking the wonder of this youngster,
her spirits alive within me!
When depressed and blue you come through,
relax me when feeling vulgar.
Her spirits alive within me,
unmasking the wonder of this youngster!
Every verse meant to impress this poetess,
an essence of the empress I aim to please!
Unmasking the wonder of this youngster,
her spirits alive within me!
Harshest critic yet my biggest fan,
imperfections cast asunder
Her spirits alive within me,
Unmasking the wonder of this youngster
Death cannot take the gift I was given,
Linda-Marie!!
Unmasking the wonder of this youngster,
her spirits alive within me.
Jared Pickett
2/17/2014
Asavvy1
Reflecting on his life and on his deeds,
he thinks how like this ending time of day,
his life is mirrored here among the reeds
beneath peach twilight clouds tinged brownish grey.
Yes, like these clouds, his life was peachy when
he started out. But challenges arose.
He couldn’t deal with them, and it was then
this peaceful life of solitude he chose.
Uncomplicated – like a placid lake -
is how he's lived, and with a narrow view.
For no big chances ever did he take
while drifting like a simple small canoe.
As long as there remains day’s last gold light,
he’ll bask until he’s swallowed by black night.
For Anoucheka Gangabissoon's In the Mirror of Life Poetry Contest
~Trust~
(George's Mirrored Hourglass)
In God I can always trust
With Him my heart just glows
When storms comes He's there
Rests in His love
Loves me well
I know
I know
Loves me well
Rest in His love
When storms comes He's there
With Him my heart just glows
In God I can always trust.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2013
December.21.2015
~Author's Notes:
"George's Mirrored Hourglass" is a poetry style created
by George L. Ellison.
In another time and age
we could have written a new page
crossing paths on land or sea
brushing cheeks with destiny.
With youthful zest and joy
our ardent quills employ
to mix your ink with mine
with passion so divine
and then the words would flow
to set each heart aglow.
If our souls could sing and rhyme
beyond the horizon of time
to mirror our words with perfection
with utmost sincerity and affection
to bring distinct colors and shades
we seal a bond that will not fade
as we reach for eternity
bathing in blissful affinity.
Mirrored thoughts on a new page
in another time and age.
~Love And Peace~
(Mirrored Hourglass)
Pray God for love, peace today
Love comes from the Lord
He sets us all free
Changes all hearts
Makes us strong
In Him
In Him
Makes us strong
Changes all hearts
He sets us all free
Love comes from the Lord
Pray God for love, peace today
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2013
June.30.2015
The "Mirrored Refrain" is a poetry style created by poet
George L. Ellison.
~Love And Peace~
(Mirrored Hourglass)
Pray God for love, peace today
Love comes from the Lord
He sets us all free
Changes all hearts
Makes us strong
In Him
In Him
Makes us strong
Changes all hearts
He sets us all free
Love comes from the Lord
Pray God for love, peace today.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2013
November.10.2016
-So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV)
~Author's Notes:
The "Mirrored Horglass" is a poetry style created by George L. Ellison.
~Mango Tree~
(Mirrored Tanka)
Mango falls from tree
Ripe, delicious and so sweet
Mango tree so tall
It gives such a tasty fruit
Mango drops near top of head
Mango drops near top of head
It gives such a tasty fruit
Mango tree so tall
Ripe, delicious and so sweet
Mango falls from tree
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2011
November.22.2015
Authors notes:
This is a Mirrored Tanka style.
~ My Eyes ~
( Mirrored Hourglass)
My eyes are fill'd with teardrops
My heart is wreck'd with pain
I do miss you so
And so much more
As time goes
I do
I do
As time goes
And so much more
I do miss you so
My heart is wreck'd with pain
My eyes are fill'd with teardrops
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2017
October.26.2017
'Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.'
- Mark Twain-
~Author's Notes:
The 'Mirrored Hourglass' is a poetry form or style created by George E. Ellison.