Sunday, May 26, 2013

my plea

Photo credit:   L. Diane Wolfe



let me 
fall like dew drop
on your skin, stained of sun -
then carry me, weighed of gold, in 

your palm-



Posted for Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Mini-challenge
and Poets United

Poetry form:  cinquain - 5 lines following 2-4-6-8-2 syllables 

35 comments:

  1. Grace,
    Wouldn't it be wonderful to affect those we love in this way~

    Heavenly!

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    1. Yes, it would be Ella ~ Thank you for the wonderful challenge ~

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  2. This is stunning Grace I love it =)

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  3. So lovely it's dripping in fondness and desire. I have to read it again for the third time, as each gives reading of it gives me pause. It may be the rainy, kind of day, or rather that pleasing.

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  4. i like the play on the weight in this...falling light yet weighing as gold int eh hand when carried....lovely little short grace...

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  5. So much beauty in so few lines. Wonderfully done!

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  6. A soothing, balm of treasured love, captures several hidden meanings in my imagination, and is nicely done in a few choice words. Lovely!

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  7. This is truly lovely, Grace.

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  8. This is a gem of a poem. You have seen such a tender poetical image in the photo - and both work perfectly together.

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  9. Awesome ... awesome ... awesome !!!

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  10. A weighty drop! I am staying here awhile.

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  11. Each word perfect and beautiful poem and imagery in your words!

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  12. Grace would be safer round my neck than in my palm. One is stiff and the other too easily curls into a fist.

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  13. Powerful thoughts, lovely expression.

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  14. Ooo...so pretty, Grace! Love that, "weighed of gold..." such beauty in your brevity as always...thank you!

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  15. sweet and romantic. Beautiful images, Grace. :-)

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  16. oh, my, Grace, I think this is my fave of all the poems you've written so far. So short, but such clear and strong message which actually hides all of my life wishes and goals - to be someone's soothing drop of life.

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    1. Such lovely comments Dezzy, I appreciate this ~ Smiles ~

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