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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2011-08-11 03:43 PM

SOLITARY FOREST DANCE
11 August 2011

As the sun sank low,
the woodnymph
danced,
swan-like,
alone, alone, alone
in a clearing
in her forest-home,
a sad, soft smile
playing on her lips.

Her music
was the twittering
of sleepy birds.
Her dance
painted the story
of her sadness
and joy,
her fears
and passions,
her loves
and hates,
her anger
and forgiveness
in muted forest colours,
the softness of her ivory dress
enhancing the curves
of her body.

There was no-one
to see
so her spirit was free
to dance
the wild and gentle story
that her heart lived
and remembered,
dance,
dance,
dance
till she dropped
gracefully
into sleep
under a guardian tree
to wake a dove
that took flight
heavenwards.

Owl

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2011-08-11 04:17 PM

That was lovely! I love the quality of peace and calming you poems always seem to have and the pretty pictures you paint in my head.
Lori

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2011-08-11 05:05 PM

What a delightful "fairytale", Diana. I love following your train of thought.
Ida

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2011-08-11 09:09 PM

Owl: What magic your pen shares with us here... this is so very lovely!

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

4 posted 2011-08-12 12:20 PM

The scenery you write of is magical, the emotions are fragile and so very real.

Pretty poetry, Lady Owl~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2011-08-13 04:32 AM

Lori, thank you.  You cannot know the intensity of the deep-seated happiness it brings me to know that I have brought calm and peace to one person for one moment, even if that person had both already, and mine only resonated with theirs.  To have brought it to somebody to didn’t have it at that moment brings me even more happiness.

Thank you, Ida.  Your replies are always so warm and uplifting.

Thank you, Ruth.  I am glad you felt the magic.  Smiles.

Thank you, Blues for feeling the heart of it.

Owl

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

6 posted 2011-08-13 04:56 AM

"Her dance
  painted the story
  of her sadness
  and joy,
  her fears
  and passions,
  her loves
  and hates,
  her anger
  and forgiveness
  in muted forest colours ..."

For me, the passage above rather effectively also captures/encompasses
the superb quality of your writing ... such a 'penning' IS your 'dance'!

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

7 posted 2011-08-13 05:23 AM

Thank you, Bruce, for your very kind words.

Owl

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

8 posted 2011-08-13 10:56 PM

Magical. You are a poet magician.

Love this.
A

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

9 posted 2011-08-14 03:37 AM

Thank you Alison. We live in such a wonderful world - with magic to experience with all our senses, imagination to use, art to create, and power to turn negative to positive. We poets are in a position to do this, and Pip is abundant with such poets, one of these being you.

Owl

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

10 posted 2011-08-14 09:48 AM

Methinks, mylady, that the woodnymph dancer be you...
Love your poetry, love this poem.

ebonygirl
Member Elite

since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

11 posted 2011-08-14 03:46 PM

A beautiful poem of freedom,
Enjoyed immensely,
ebonygirl

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

12 posted 2011-08-15 02:09 PM

Kind ice-fishing sir, methinks thou knowest true . . .

Thanks for loving my poetry and this poem, ice.

Thank you eg. Actually, no, it isn’t about freedom at all. You misunderstood the significance of the word “free” in it. But thanks for enjoying it anyway.

Owl

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

13 posted 2011-08-18 12:09 PM

Just beautiful!!!!
Kat >^..^<

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

14 posted 2011-08-18 12:23 PM

Thank you Kat. I know I've told you before, but I am telling you again how much I love your adorable signature. Meeow.

Owl

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