lovely words

lovely words

jasmine essence of the heart
fishing weights
heavy shadows
orchid soaking in mushroom water
as we head to the man cave together.

between scent & taste
perfumed hemisphere
guhr appears like novel thoughts
sometimes white
even red & black
in Stendhal moments.

grab the senses to stay here
(imagine) cloudy swirls
along for the ride
under the nascent moon
sinew & tissue
dance naked.

Prompt: Beloved Wor(l)d

"I heart earth" ... I was fascinated by the word Egypt as a child because it had 3 letters in a row that went below the line. The word sycophantic sounded like a delicacy. I was enamored with the meaning of ebullient. Write a poem about wordlove, yours or someone else's.

If you like, spark off this Ferruso painting, weighing (a la the Goddess Maat) the heft of our heart depths to a feather breath of wind, during this season when springs open up our hearts after long dark. What is the measure of our favored word? What is its value at the scales of meaning? How does it materialize in us?

Labels: heart, poem, [poet's moniker]

Image credit: From the 2011 Eclectix Interview with Ewelina Ferruso Koszykowski, Painting entitled "Heart as Light as a Feather"