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Perfectly Flawed
Paper thin
pale porcelain skin
aching bones upon the wake.
Sullen dawn
a hole in the clouds
and I’m thinking I might break.
Dark sky bursts
rain pelting, melting
glacial heart that never thawed.
Fragile soul
bleeding wounds that healed
and I am perfectly flawed.
Colleen Keller Breuning © 2022
July 30, 2022
Lines in the Sand
The wind blew cold
The moon grew old
And just where did our time go?
In void of gray
You slipped away
Where all cloaked emotions flow…
Inhale the breeze
Of churning seas
As hope scatters across land.
I stand alone
Hand clasping stone
And I draw lines in the sand…
I drew you lines in the sand,
Lines in the sand…
Colleen Keller Breuning © 2022
July 4, 2022
I’ve been on a real Radiohead kick the past few years, and I was excited that both of my sisters are Radiohead fans as well! This is one group I have yet to see in concert, but I’m keeping my eye out for their next tour. 😉
I think Thom Yorke is one of the most brilliant lyricists and singers. His voice is ethereal, haunting, and sends chills down my spine. I particularly love this song, “Sail to the Moon,” which Thom wrote for his son. It makes me think of my beloved Tommy, especially during Tommy’s battle with lymphoma, which fatefully claimed him. I would sing the lyrics to this song to Tommy, and pray he was going to be okay.
Somehow as I was listening to this song, it inspired this poem. I don’t know why but it just came to me, starting with the phrase “lines in the sand” and it just sort of morphed into this. I love when that happens! Thank you, Thom Yorke, for your constant inspiration!
xoxo Colleen
Blogophilia Week 23.7 Topic: Unrelenting Spirit
Bonus Points:
(Hard, 2 points) Incorporate a Mary Poppins quote or line (such as “a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down”)
(Easy, 1 point) Include two types of yellow birds in blog (goldfinch, meadowlark)
Photograph by Colleen Keller Breuning © 2014
In Valleys of Green
Life is like a runaway train
engines thundering blue and black
oblivious to the pain
beneath the broken tracks
my eyes begin to rain.
Somehow the truth passed by me
beneath the surface, slipping away
into the ever-raging sea
far from the light of day
into total obscurity.
Yet inside, an unrelenting spirit lies
whispering stay awake
don’t close your eyes
the sorrow will soon break
with the gray morning skies.
Lay me down in valleys of green
where the goldfinch play
and the meadowlarks preen
singing at dark and light of day
and all the hours in between.
Oh Angel in white, help me to see
take me to that place once more
where butterflies roam free
where I can heal to the core
where I can be me…
Colleen Keller Breuning © 2014
August 1, 2014
Mary Poppins quote used: “Stay awake, don’t close your eyes.”
SECRET BONUS POINT GUESSES:
1. Angel in white (blog)
2. dark and light of day (blog)
3. Send me an angel
4. It’s a nice day for a white wedding! (Billy Idol ☺)
5. The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
6. Behold the desert rose
7. Gypsies tramps and thieves
8. Alien goddess bride
9. Mars – destination wedding!
10. Desperation and destruction in Death valley
11. Found the runaway bride on Mars!
12. Whiter shade of pale
13. Operation Desert Storm
14. Eve of Destruction
15. Dry your tears
16. Cracked Earth
17. Mother Nature is pissed!
18. Don’t cry for me, Argentina…
19. When the oceans die
20. Don’t tell me little white lies
Topic: Tyler Myrth
Picture: Tyler Myrth
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