"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aeclectic Tarot Forum has a fun thread called "Tarot Haiku" where you select a card from your tarot deck and create a haiku that represents the symbolism and/or meaning of that particular card.

Today I chose from the major arcana; The Empress, in celebration of Mother's Day and to wish all of those who nurture and care for others a wonderful day!

Rapt

Words find no home

tempered by the passing days

they linger in screaming silence

echoing through these hollow walls

withstand the ticking time

and call to obsessions

eternal madness

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 Link back to the tour on Sans Souci's page

 

Highly recommend this website for shrinking images...(see my links for review)
http://nikinoelle.multiply.com/links/item/2/RE-SIZE_PICTURES_FOR_AVATAR

As Snow

softest
pale

slowly
drifting

unrushed
movement 

falling

falling

gently
toward

a delicate
bed of earth.

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Snow Falling Image from thundercat236@photobucket.com

 Link back to the tour on Sans Souci's page

 

Spellbound 

The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.

Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me;
I will not, cannot go.

~ Emily Jane Bronte

Image: "The Winter's Tale" ~ Artist Kinuko Y. Craft
@The Art of Kinuko Y. Craft.com

sometimes we get our wish but it's not exactly the way we had envisioned it to be...

Soulmates…
who is to dictate

Fall away to contemplate
what was thought a bad fate

Come back once more
to find your lover waiting behind the door

Comfortably you embrace
this unusual state of grace

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Link back to the tour on Sans Souci's page

I threw a few tunes together to celebrate Mother's Day. These songs remind me of being a Mom, a grandmother; they remind me of my children, my granddaughter, my own Mom, and well...Home. Enjoy! :)

Fireworks

and calls from pain

bring back that time again

 

where nothing fits

nothing works

dull the feeling

knee to jerk

 

everything upside down

make it right

wear the crown

 

her majesty is put to shame

back down on her knees again

 

circle moves round and round

wear your crown

Now

upside down

 

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Image "Return of the Queen" from Artist: Steve Sherrell

This one's for Sans Souci... an homage to her amazing poem "Take the A Train"
 
http://x.imeem.com/xIKXVSDPlg

Sans Souci's poem "Take the A Train" can be found on her multiply blog
Artwork: "Straight No Chaser" ~  Frank Morrison

Below is a link to a beautiful website called "Light a Candle". The site was shared on one of my favorite places to visit on the web, Aeclectic Tarot Forum. Light a candle for anything you wish, pray for, or give thanks to. Your candle will burn for 48 hours with the others that have been lit.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/about.cfm?l=eng

"You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea."

~Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

Before the ice is in the pools,

Before the skaters go,

Or any cheek at nightfall

Is tarnished by the snow,

Before the fields have finished,

Before the Christmas tree,

Wonder upon wonder

Will arrive to me!

What we touch the hems of

On a summer's day;

What is only walking

Just a bridge away;

That which sings so, speaks so,

When there 's no one here,--

Will the frock I wept in

Answer me to wear?

~Emily Dickinson

Artwork: "Winter Walk" ~ Penelope Hammond@deviantArt.com

light/alternative music with a couple of alternative rock songs thrown in the mix :)

When I Am Among the Trees

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness,
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, "Stay awhile."
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, "It's simple," they say,
"and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine."

~Author Mary Oliver

Artwork: "Willow Weep for Me" created by Artist Tom Wilcox@deviantART.com

----------------Now playing: Fiona Apple - Pale Septembervia FoxyTunes

poetry Wednesdays

"Gravity of Fear" Artist ~Temporary Peace @deviantArt.com

Slow Burn

brilliant orange glow
perfect circle show
devours space and time

until
smaller, smallest, small
you slip the ties that bind

untethered
float out and away
welcomed vast blankness

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