Day 24
PAD: “The truth about __________”
Theme: Alzheimer’s/dementia
Image: Harmony
Manipulated Digital Painting by Elizabeth Crawford
Tag: blind
Of pleasure and of pain
Hey, that’s my line!
Poetic Bloomings challenged us to “steal” a line from another poet,from any previous prompt. I wrote two but am posting this one:
“Now high, now low, the harmony of pleasure and of pain
Sweeps soulfully across the sea and land.” Janet Martin’s Villianelle June 27, 2012
(Thank you, Janet)
“Of pleasure and of pain”
The harmony of pleasure
and of pain, sweeps soulfully
across the sea and the land.
The sea may rage and argue
against spring’s thundering
hand and I may ride the rain
like waves of war cutting across
meadowland and dwelling,
with a swelling fear inside
my breast—the pain of height,
the fear of depths too deep
to see. I breathe numb, I stumble
dumb into the message from
one who walked these seas.
Tonight I sleep with my blind
voice, reciting pithy proverbs,
the lore of folk, weak and fruit-
less. I need a strong hand to
stroke in the torrid thunder,
I need a voice to hush the gales,
to awaken my eyes to prayer
and the promises that sweep
soulfully across the sea and
land, a guiding hand to ease
my shorn soul. Tomorrow I’ll
wake to that Voice on the
breeze, singing a simple prayer,
gently brushing love through
the wind in my hair.
Writing On The Sun 