»
Archives
»
Open Poetry #37
»
Our Brook Stone Cottage
| Open Poetry #37 |
|
Our Brook Stone Cottage |
|
|
OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
|
Our Brook Stone Cottage 9 August 2001 I hear you sing our dreams and painted moments in the sun and moonlight flights across the sky. I answer calling, calling, calling, pausing, listening to your glad reply. You sweep me high in pas de deux lifts passionate, strong. You dance my soul in technicolour into yours and fly my heart upon the breeze. I taste your river whispers - oh sweet waters - upon our lips in repose from rolling chosen rocks for our cottage warm, secure, but this flood of yours is ours to drink of past eternity, and I would marry you in our brook stone cottage or frozen tundras or tropical storm or screaming traffic or industrial pollution or the very fires of Hell. - Owl |
||
| © Copyright 2006 Diana van den Berg - All Rights Reserved | |||
|
Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Diana I really like this....the imagery, and then the last lines of declaration of love are beautiful!  |
||
|
icequeen Senior Member
since 2001-12-09
Posts 633FL USA |
this is very, very beautiful ~ I like very much  Caroline He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. |
||
|
The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
"or the very fires of Hell." YES Diana! You write love so well. |
||
|
OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Martie, Caroline and Kate. I'm glad you enjoyed it. This was in reply to an exquisite poem of his and the cottage was a much referred to symbol for a long while. Needless to say (or maybe not), it all came to nothing in the end. - Owl |
||
|
Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
A very stirring and passionate write! Diana, you do these soooo well!  Sending you a hug-o-love! Linda |
||
Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
There are times when I do wish you lived in a "better" place....meaning safer, more peaceful, secure....but there are times when I wouldn't deny you a single instant or a single atom of the place where you are. Yep, this moment is one of those. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
||
|
OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Linda-Earth Angel, your words (as usual) give me a warm fuzzy feeling! Ed, I love your kind, understanding, concerned and compassionate reply. I love where I live literally and metaphorically and wouldn't live anywhere else (literally & metaphorically), but I admit that I sometimes wish that it(l & m) was safer, more peaceful and secure. However, it isn't as bad as it sometimes may seem (especially now that I have a high palisade fence, electric gate, electric garage door, security sensor lights and increased features to my burglar alarm). The relationship I wrote about above gave me excrutiating pain, but also much beauty, and yes, you are so right, I wouldn't have missed a moment of it (at least years later in retrospect!) for I have grown as a result of it, and I know it was best for me that it didn't work out. - Owl |
||
|
suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Your response... that you wouldn't have missed a minute of it... is a perfect coda... Some loves are for a while... some are for a lifetime... even if they don't work out, they are part of us... and we would be less without them. *S* Beautiful poem... I love the ending!!! |
||
|
LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
your writings are always so profound, so filled with illuminaries of imagry...it is the heart that remembers, all that has blended us to identity. remarkable! |
||
|
OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you suthern and Lee, for your kind words and for understanding me and my poem so well. - Owl |
||
|
Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
'you dance my soul' and the footprints are forever embedded. This write tugs at my heart. ~Klassy~ |
||
|
jody5 Senior Member
since 2005-12-21
Posts 876California, U.S.A. |
Such a passionate write, much enjoyed. Love can be so grand. Huggs Kim |
||
|
OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Klassy Lassy and Jody, thank you for enjoying my poem. - Owl |
||
|
JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Enjoyed...don't think I'd go as far as the hell part though...James |
||
|
OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thanks, James - oh, I wouldn't and it is just as well for me that I wasn't required to then, after all, because I think I may just have done so! - Owl |
||
vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
good read |
||
|
OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thanks vandana. Glad you enjoyed it. - Owl |
||
*Alli4000*
since 2004-03-21
Posts 3188The World of Poetry |
Very nice write. |
||
|
iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
This is lovely, Diana.........jo |
||
|
Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
This is so beautiful.. It absolutely dances down the page like a running brook.. there is something so secure feeling about a stone cottage.. Wonderful write..so very much enjoyed. Hugs~Nancy ~ Trace my body with your words, |
||
|
StevenS Senior Member
since 2005-09-21
Posts 945L. A. (Lower Alabama) |
Owl, some people really know how to say I love you! Devine! :-) |
||
|
OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Alli, iliana, Enchantress and Steven. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Enchantress, thank you for your kind words. That was what I tried to do. Yes, a stone cottage does feel secure. That was probably why he came up with it in his original poem, the one to me, to which this poem is a reply. Thank you Steven for the smile you gave me. - Owl |
||
|
|
⇧ top of page ⇧ |
|
| All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format. | ||
