When my own imagination takes to wander, It is there I sit to write and quiet often I find a Little Poetry to share, once I completed editing and re-editing such poetry. Today’s Poem is one such writing that I am eager to share as always. BUT I must credit a Poem I read from one who wrote of a smile of one he loved, This was the spark that drove this Poem to what it is below. Which again proved to me that anything can be the spark needed to create something of great beauty.
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Within my own imagination, This poem began as a walk through the quiet corners of a restless heart, where even the smallest gestures carry the weight of light. It lingers in moments that cannot be named, in the pauses between shadow and dawn, and in the hush of a smile that turns the world soft.
This is the best image for this Poem But it has to work for this one as the Poem is enough for this topic. . All thanks go to AI and its attempt to provide the image I looked for. Thus credit goes to AI for the image.
Before the Blackbird Sings
Here walking, wiping weary steps from my eyes,
Days rambling, wandering through a worn disguise.
As winds swept softly through the trees with ease,
They carried sweet songs of blackbirds on the breeze.
A lone, lost, listless being was I before you came,
A garden growing without a flower, shame.
One walked life’s road without this bloom to shine,
Thus I, once blind, to now know love divine.
As the blackbird brings bright song into this life,
On this knife’s edge, strolling slowly through strife.
Yet the babbling brook bobs along, never still,
This source of soft life moves onward at will.
Your tender smile searched my heart, lit darkness there,
A radiant warmth born gently, meant to share.
For your smile makes the world and wild woods sing,
All life lifts, longing to join the blackbird’s wing.
So now I walk where once my steps had feared the day,
Your closeness softens all the shadows on my way.
No words declared, no need for sound or sign,
Just life held still…
and your smile
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