Tag: Poetry

Take Care Of Yourself

The rose doesn’t feel well
Her head hangs down
She feels sick, weak and tired
I nourish her,
make a quiet place,
protect her space
so she can rest

I blow the worries from her petals
and caress her with loving words
I let her lean against a stick
so she can still stand upright
and receive the light of her beloved,
the sun

I take good care of her
that precious rose in me
’cause what’s dear to you
is dear to me
And as I take care of me
I take care of us

©RoseGirl2019

Put On Your Dancing Shoes

And I take my pen like I
put on my dancing shoes
to burn up the dance floor
together with you

What more could a poetess wish for
than to let her words dance
with those of her poet
To let images, metaphors and letters
make love with each other
and let them merge rhythmically
into one, musical poem

To dance the night away,
the stars from the sky
the ink from the paper
To step out of the lines
and even make poetry
of silence

©RoseGirl2019

Being Yourself

I want to be so naked with you
No defenses, no fears, no shame
Undressed and uncovered
My skin transparent
To let your eyes glide
over every spot of my body,
let them look into my mind and
gaze into my heart
Like your eyes are my own
I dance in your presence
in nothing but nakedness
in raw emotions, pure relaxation
And just be completely myself
The me I can only be with you
The you you can only be with me

©RoseGirl2019

Integrating Shadows

May I lie in your arms
and will you hold me,
will you embrace
the part of me that is afraid
and doesn’t dare to trust,
the part of me that does believe,
the part of me that’s in her strength,
the part of me that feels so helpless,
the part of me that feels
guilty and bad,
that is harsh and judges herself
the part of me that is soft
and self-compassionate

If you hold all parts of me
in the arms of love
I will be whole

©RoseGirl2019

Self-Forgiveness

When you hurt me
I was hurting myself
You were hurting yourself
I was hurting you

When your shadows came out
You were a mirror and
you showed me mine

So it’s not so much about
forgiving you
but it’s about healing
and forgiving ourselves
So that instead of shadows
Our mirror will reflect
even more of this pure love

For through ourselves
we love each other
Through each other
we love ourselves

©RoseGirl2019

Meeting Up

What are you doing, my love
Do you sit somewhere
with a cup of coffee
in your hands
Do you stare
into your daydreams
and you think of me

Like I sit here
with a cup of coffee
in my hands
I stare into my daydreams
And I think of you

Then maybe,
if we stare long enough
into our daydreams
we see each other sitting there
drinking a cup of coffee together

©RoseGirl2019

Truth And Dare

‘Truth or dare,’ they asked
‘I choose truth,’ she said
‘Do you love him?’
‘Yes I do’

‘Truth or dare,’ they asked
‘I dare,’ she said
They gave her
a challenge to prove:
‘Love him’

And so she loved him,
even when it rained and thundered,
even when the earth shook,
even when she needed
to have patience,
even when she was blindfolded,
She dared and
she spoke the truth

©RoseGirl2019

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