Thursday, April 19, 2018

Mirror of blue





Calm this blue heart
Through water-clogged days, grassy blights- 
Calm this blue heart
With buds and songbirds for a start
Gilding sky with gold color, sight
Of robust sun, beckoning light-
Calm this blue heart 







Posted for OpenLinkNight of dVerse Poets Pub - Poetry form is a Rondelet.  Join us when the pub doors open at 3pm EST.   Thanks for the visit.

30 comments:

  1. A dose of spring seems to be what you need...a poem so many can identify with!

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  2. Nice repeating line about the blue heart.

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  3. This is lovely -- particularly the repeating line "calm this blue heart."

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  4. I love the calmness... just what I need...

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  5. The rondolet works so well as the repetition creates the calm - a lovely line too

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  6. I love the repetition it adds to the calm, it is like the water lap-lapping.

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  7. Calm and peaceful is sure the way

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  8. Lovely prayer and poem. Thank you

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  9. Rondelet! Rondelet! Never mind me and my shouts...your poem is quite hypnotic....i felt myself super-calm at the end. Lovely.

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  10. Very calming poem. Lovely.

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  11. I love this:

    "Calm this blue heart
    With buds and songbirds for a start"

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  12. Beautiful Grace, truly beautiful.
    Anna :o]

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  13. Lovely. A lot of blue hearts need to be calmed, do they not?

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  14. Quiet a lovely entry, Grace. The blue heart bookends contrast neatly with lively array of colors sprinkled throughout. Very effective use of the form. SK

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  15. Of robust sun, beckoning light-
    Calm this blue heart

    A Blue heart needs calming, sure enough! Nice one Grace!

    Hank

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  16. Calm this blue heart - the refrain works so wonderful here Grace. I can feel a restorative breath in your words.

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  17. Love this refrain. Goes well with the art.

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  18. The repetition is calming in itself, like the lull of a heartbeat. Beautiful.

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  19. a lovely rondelet, Grace. I hope you are well ~

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  20. Very controlled with evocative imagery.

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  21. Such gentle beauty whispers hush.

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  22. The repetition is like a calming mantra.

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  23. Mirror of blue, that calms a blue heart.

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  24. Oh, Grace, I love your words with this painting...gorgeous images!

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  25. Repetition is one of my favorite things. It complements you theme perfectly. Comforting :)

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  26. I know blue always calms me! Lovely!

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  27. A touch of robust sun will not only calm this iced blue heart it may in fact thaw it. A pleasing rondelet Grace.

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