Tag: Poetry

Shift

If something pulls you down
If your own thoughts grab you
If fears try to get a hold
If you are in anything lower than love,
just shift out of it, my darling
Let your fingers on the strings
play another melody
Shift into another rhythm
Let your voice find another song

Call me in and we shift together
We let our feet dance another dance
our hearts write another poem
and we find again the lightness
and the laughter

©RoseGirl2019

Get Your Hands On Me

It may seem like I’m a wild rose
that dances freely around
in the meadows of poetry
unreachable almost
that you can sing and dream about
and that you can only watch
from afar

But my darling, get your hands on me
sense my velvety soft skin
underneath your fingertips
For I was not only made to fit
into your heart, fit into your gaze
and fit into your dreams
But I was also shaped to fit
perfectly into your hands and arms

©RoseGirl2019

8

We are in an eight
A sacred flow
of truth and love
that bonds us
through time,
dimensions and space
Energetically we always
complement and balance,
work closely together
and help each other out

©RoseGirl2019

It Takes Two To Tango

The accordion starts to play
You look me fiery into my eyes
Your arm around my waist
Your other hand seeks mine
They fall into each other
We fall into place

It takes our feet that follow our hearts
It takes one step and then the others
Quick rhythms and abrupt pauses
Still postures and long movements
Your lips that almost touch mine
And then an arm length between us
Moves that are synchronized
Opposite positions sometimes
Though we dance in perfect balance

It takes passion and desire
It takes melancholy and longing
It takes the flame of true love
It takes our bodies, our soul
It takes the masculine and feminine
For it takes two to tango

©RoseGirl2019

To Dance Anyway

On this journey
it is no option to go back
or to get off
as the only way to go
is in front of us

And it’s not about
how much it rains,
how scared you are
and how heavy your heart is
But it’s about
if your feet dance anyway
if you still envision the sun
and if you keep moving forward

©RoseGirl2019

Purple

Let’s take our paintbrush
and combine the hot,
passionate, fierce energy of red
with the calm, flowing stability of blue
to colour our world purple
as we blend fire and water into one
And like lavender,
in purple it all looks so
sweet and peaceful
cosmic and spiritual
but we won’t forget that
even if the blue may colour it cooler
purple is still made of red

©RoseGirl2019

Enthusiasm

SUCH BIG FEELINGS
THAT MAKE ME WANT TO SAY SO MUCH
AS I BURST INTO MY POETRY
LIKE AN ELEPHANT I MARCH
THROUGH THE CHINA SHOP
AND TRAMPLE some small delicate words
IT ALL MAY LOOK CLUMSY
AND OUT OF PROPORTION
FOR YOU SHOULD NEVER TRY TO FIT
A BIG HEART WITH LOVE
INTO JUST a small poem

©RoseGirl2019

Choose Freedom Every Single Moment

So many thoughts in my head
Rough-edged and angular
Negative clutter that blocks my way
and holds me back to move fluidly

I release the cords attached to them
I let them go up in the air like balloons
I free myself and make room
to dream my dreams
and envision possibilities instead

And to love you endlessly
into all directions,
right where my feet are,
where they come from
and where they’re heading to
Into every corner of my reality
And to choose freedom
every single moment

©RoseGirl2019

Seeing Through

When I close my eyes
I see you
When I open them again
I see you
You’re everywhere
in my reality
in my inner and
in the outer world
even when your feet
are not near

Like everything around us
is just a film
and not real
and my heart can reach
through the screen
to see the truth behind the veil
to see you there
always close to me

©RoseGirl2019

In The Invisible

The most important work is done
in the invisible
It is before the pen touches the paper
Before any action is taken
It is what you cannot see
But what happens within
It is the work behind the scenes

It is when I am silent
When I heal, meditate
When visions come to me
When I balance my energy
When I work on me, work on us
When I visualize, imagine, dream
When my heart talks with yours
When I just sit with myself
and love you

It is then that I create
the visible

©RoseGirl2019

Translation Problem

Every language has a few
expressions that are hard to translate
You can describe it but the words
don’t fully cover what is meant

And so, I cannot truly find the right words
to translate this love I feel for you
from the native language of my heart
into whatever language I choose

©RoseGirl2019

From The Inside Out

Many people think they know me
whereas they don’t know me at all
When they look at me they think
they see me
but what they see is only an image
and a story they projected themselves
Only you know my heart,
de deepest of my core
like nobody else knows me
for you know me from the inside out

©RoseGirl2019

Trick Mirrors

When my world is like a funhouse
with trick mirrors on the wall
that make things look
scary and illusive
and I wonder what I can trust
what is a lie, what is real
Then, I seek you in my heart
to find, this love is the only thing
that is true

©RoseGirl2019

Family

Emotions and judgements
thrown at her like rotten eggs
They try to lasso her
with guilt and blame

And she wants to tell them
about the good intentions in her heart
But they cannot hear her
for they shout too loud
so she just keeps still

They demand of her
to be the person they want her to be
not the person she is
and to behave the way they want
The same words they used
long time ago
she had hoped things had changed
but she is wrong

And she just stands there
while she looks at them
astounded and in fright
what can she say, what can she do
other than to stay true to herself
It could be time to walk away

Family, sometimes it’s not
with whom you share your blood
but with whom you share your heart

©RoseGirl2019

In Paris

I asked someone to put a little lock
with our names written on it
on the railing of the bridge
Ponte des Arts in Paris
as a symbol of our eternal love

So when in future we will walk
through the city of love together
hand in hand on the bridge
that crosses the Seine river
we will see that
our love was already locked in there
before our feet touched the streets
like our love already existed
before we were born and
before our feet touched the earth

©RoseGirl2019

Poetic In Nature

She wanted to write
about him in a normal way
No curls in the letters,
no dancing words
no metaphors, no rhyme
but straight language

However, no matter
how hard she tried
what came out
was just another poem
for he and the love she felt
were poetic in nature

©RoseGirl2019

The Greatness Of Your Gift

The songs you wrote about us,
about me
You carefully crafted them
with your hands and heart
I hear a softness in your voice
I have never heard before

The moving images you painted
with colours and with stars
with the sun and moon together
in the sky
You made your love visible and audible
You painted our universe for me

And I am deeply grateful
and moved to tears
when my heart fully opens up
to the greatness of your gift
As I realize, that nobody
has ever done
anything like that for me

And that indeed,
you must truly love me

©RoseGirl2019

Different Sorts Of Silence

It seems like it is silent in the forest
and there is not much going on
between the lovers
But if you listen with the ears
of the heart,
you hear that all the time
the silence speaks

You hear a symphony of love
between the love birds
Sometimes it is a sad song
that makes leaves fall like teardrops

The silence can be stormy,
and full of turmoil
Or it can be the sigh of relief,
the calm after the storm

The silence can scream
with longing
It can be fiery with desire and
passion
crackling with the heat that burns
in the lover’s hearts

The silence waves and moves
It dances
It vibrates, it tingles, it pulls
It is the connecting field,
the presence that is,
It is the space that the forest
holds for the two lovers

©RoseGirl2019

Change

Change may be scary
and uncomfortable
For you never know
how the river flows
and as you float
away from the shore
there are losses

Though there is one thing
we can know for sure
the water may be wild
but its stream
will always lead us
to our sea of love

©RoseGirl2019

The Mind Needs To Lose Control

As she had many experiences
in which she felt helpless
her mind had learned
to take the reins
as a way to protect
and have a sense of control

When true love found her
her mind still tried to be in charge
It created false realities
based on fears and self-doubts

But in order to be free
and let love flow
Her mind needed to let go
of the ties it still held
For when true love is in the heart
the ego mind needs to lose control

©RoseGirl2019

Interrelated

They are connected in
heart, body, mind and soul
Their energies always
entwine, dance and interact
with each other
Messages sent
back and forth

She helps him by helping herself
When she balances within,
he can root in her
When she heals her wounds,
she heals him as well
When she uplifts her thoughts,
she sends him reassurance
When she takes care of her,
she takes care of him

When he stands up for himself,
he takes a stand for her
When he builds on their love,
he builds her up
When he honours his heart,
he honours hers

©RoseGirl2019

Persistent

And he asked:
‘How can you still love me?’

She replied:
‘True love is persistent
Once it has found you
it will never leave
How can you remove
the sun from your sky?
You can put clouds
and walls in between,
wear sunglasses and do
anything to block the light
But that never makes
the sun go away’

©RoseGirl2019

Right Where We Are

Sometimes I’m like a fast train
and I head with great speed
fueled by longing
towards the destination
while I disregard the journey,
the view from the window
and I even get ahead of myself

Then I just need
to pull the brake and slow down
to roll in harmony again
with you, with myself, with life
To know that all that I want
is already there,
home is never far
My heart united with yours
Where we need to be
is right where we are
And from there
our destination rolls fast towards us

©RoseGirl2019

Mercy

Some painful memories are
like sharp pins
Dates that are pierced on the calendar
And sometimes still make
the heart bleed

Let’s pull them out together
Let’s pull the nails out of the cross
For we don’t need to suffer no more
It’s time to enjoy
Our boundless love gives us mercy

©RoseGirl2019

Journal

Can you be my journal
and can I write
every day on your pages
all that’s in my heart

Can I share with you
all my feelings, my secrets,
my stories, my thoughts

A sacred space for me
safely held by your loving eyes

A journal that heals,
that witnesses and knows
Like an open window
on my naked heart

Let me be your journal too
You can fill my pages
with all what wants to come out,
all of your truth

Let us write together in our journals
we do not even need to use a pen
But we just write with our hearts

©RoseGirl2019

On Track

Can you hold my heart, my love
for it shakes and shivers
Afraid as it is of the unknown
It cannot see clearly now
And it wonders, if it is still
on the right path back home

Can you hold my heart, my love
tightly pressed against yours
Can you let it hear, let it feel
the echo, the perfect mirror
of its own melody, its own rhythm
Two hearts that
always beat as one
And so with every heartbeat
you keep mine on track

©RoseGirl2019