Where Are Your Words?

Where have you been with your words
that you vowed to whisper softly
until they tumbled over the moon?
Tranquil images are all I can see
in your rhymes
that sank deep into the night
too soon.

Where are the eyes that lit up my world
and filled my pockets
with dreams of a life that shines?
I am realizing now
that what I once was
you have steadily changed
as you exhaled your lines.

Is my hope a golden thought
I love because it dwells
in my emotions
becoming a journey
where I drop to my knees,
spelling out words
then wonder where they lead
into my own circumstances?

Sometimes, when I sleep,
I glide over shells,
holding the hand of life,
forming collages, I could never forget
even when I am weary and I speak
of past things I should have forgotten
over the years.

Where have you been with your words
that make me smile in knowing
I have found my safe harbor
where I can be quiet
and revel in the tranquil images
you create
in my heart and soul?

Author's Note

For My Muse
Artist *Delphin Enjolras

Reviews

[R J Askew]

This is achingly beautiful in its wistful yearning from start to finish. The picture of the beauty reading is, for any poet, a vision of perfection. Yet the reader is reproachful in her questioning which implies failure, even betrayal perhaps on the part of the word wielder. The voice is alomst that of life to life, life craving something more, always something more, which in the end is not there. This sadness goes to the core of all we are. A very moving poem.

[Inyourshadow]

I have been busy lol, sorry just being playful and I love filling my pockets with dreams as sounds so much sweeter than fluff and old candy wrappers lol.
Next time you dream of a shell coated beach and form yourself a collage remember to make space for a comments box so we can keep in touch with the inner poet as well

I must go down to the sea again...,

to see if Neva's there

keep em' coming

[Kenneth The Poet]

You make safe harbor sound really safe.

[Art]

such is the emotion of yearning...to long for those phrases that whisper of life and love...nice work Neva...

[Lily Mae]

When you find out where those words live and thrive please let me know ;) There are moments in life when just any simple few words would make an enormous difference in how we feel.. Beautiful Neva...xx

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

Brilliant, creative writing! Such passion filled words of a longing and yearning! Each stanza I applaude you! Excellent

[KAREN]

Beautiful! With each question the longing becomes so strong. A breathtaking poetic poem!
100/100

[unknown]

Those words are wandering somewhere just temporarily away....lovely poem :)

[Da Filkman]

This is truly brilliant, Neva...from one writer to another!