My heart offers you its roses of red
to welcome love's scent from the purest soul
as we cast our fate on petals that spread
we'll pluck the passion's bloom our heart's control
rise to my love, as the journey's begun
embrace the sweet fragrance of love's desire
unmoor your heart as you savor the sun
so I'll find love in eyes of blue sapphire
let me fall gently in their chosen sphere
where my rose may quench its thirst of longing
with delicate soft whispers to the ear
we'll share a paradise of belonging
till your heart's soil and plant my rose within
Welcome the fragrant red roses again
3/18/23
contest Writing Challenge "M" Words
sponsor Constance La France
Categories:
unmoor, love, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet
You indulged me with your filthy deceits
You anointed me with a coronal of false assurances
You took me by the hand and guided me to a land of falsehoods
And I was a complete fool for you
I swear by the sun and the moon,
And each of the stars scorching and fading in galaxies far away,
That I will never illustrate my palpable love for you again
I will not yearn for you, for you have forgotten me
The love in my heart is extinguished
Though my it beats relentlessly like a war drum
The gardens you tended in my mind
Now wither and choke from poisonous ash flung
From the den of shadows that is my soul
I will not call for you
I will torch every bridge you have ever stepped foot on
I will tear the pages that invoke your name from my book of life
I will erase any lingering nostalgia of your adoration
I will unmoor my soul from the shores of your callous considerations
I will inter my longing for you in a grave soon encumbered by the weeds of time
Should I conjure your ghost one day
I will promptly snuff that redolent manifestation
For I have torn out my anguished heart
And sown it in fertile, healing soils
Categories:
unmoor, deep, emotions, heartbreak, lost
Form: Free verse