There seem to be
many matters:
Personal matters
Complicated matters
Important matters
No laughing matters
Great matters
of the mind
But in the end
those matters
don’t really matter
for it all truly is
only a matter of love
©RoseGirl2019
Poetic Art From The Heart ~ Finding Beauty In Truth
There seem to be
many matters:
Personal matters
Complicated matters
Important matters
No laughing matters
Great matters
of the mind
But in the end
those matters
don’t really matter
for it all truly is
only a matter of love
©RoseGirl2019
When I was a child
I was the strange bird
in the nest
I didn’t fit, I didn’t belong
I always imagined and hoped
that my family wasn’t
my real family
And one day my real parents
would come for me
to save me from the nightmare
in which I grew up
But no one came,
the nightmare continued
Was I then completely alone
in this world,
I wondered for a long time
Until I met you
and you woke me up
And I saw that mother earth
had always carried me
Father heaven had protected me
The angels had my back
as my family
And I had and have you
always by my side
©RoseGirl2019
And together we are sweet
like chocolate
We melt in each other’s eyes
and in each other’s arms
We have that sweet taste of love
©RoseGirl2019
I always knew
But suddenly I felt it
How sensitive
your heart truly is
Transparent, fragile,
Of breathtaking purity
Colourful and healing
like crystal
I never felt anything more
beautiful than your heart
And I understood
why you had needed
to protect it
©RoseGirl2019
As this is forever love,
why then worry about ever,
worry about what happened,
and what may yet come
For in the light of forever
all temporary worries
will instantly be burned away
©RoseGirl2019
A heart that storms, that rains,
that waves, that cries, that yearns,
that moves, that longs
As it is pulled
to you so strongly
that it could jump
out of my chest
over the ocean
to go to you on its own
©RoseGirl2019
And she said:
Who am I
Am I a poetess
Is it useful to write
Do my words contribute
anything
to anyone,
to a better world
Is it enough
Am I enough
Who am I
And he said:
Your words are
a pure expression
of your soul
A gift from the heavens
Cherish it
Express yourself
as much as you can
To remind others of
their true essence
Your words are the stars
in the sky
If you don’t know
who you are,
Remember, how I looked
you into your eyes
How I mirrored you
your purest self
Remember my gaze
and know
that you are love
and that is your purpose
©RoseGirl2019
Late at night
do you hear me tell you
all my stories
the ones that are only
meant for you
The princess
that finds her prince
The knight
that finds his lady
Sweet good night tales
that lullaby you
magically to sleep
Only to wake you up
to our dreamland
©RoseGirl2019
Maybe, I don’t need to go anywhere
I don’t need to travel to other places
I don’t need to do anything
I don’t need to fix or solve,
earn or achieve
I don’t even need to make
or write poetry
But I can just be
I can just feel
I can just breathe
and exist
And I will still be okay
I will still be valuable
I will still be loved by you
©RoseGirl2019
Your fingers glide over the guitar
I close my eyes
And hear you play
the most beautiful sunrise
over a land far away
And I see the golden light
delicately streamed
by your fingers
as you play on the strings
of your heart
and let its rays caress me
And I feel you
How I feel you
Could we be more intimate,
more vulnerable like this
Your naked tune
that finds its way into me
And you go deeper and deeper
When the soul makes love
through the heart
time and space,
even the boundaries of a body
fall away
©RoseGirl2019
When magic meets magic
When your magical existence
comes together with mine
what an outburst of magic
that is
When all becomes possible
we’ll be in Wonderland
all the time
©RoseGirl2019
Don’t cry for me, Lisboa
Although I didn’t visit you for a while
Bright city at the river Tagus
You remind me too much of my beloved
and all that is missing
Memories are captured in every tile
Tales have nowhere to go
I have been lost in your streets
and I was nowhere to find
I don’t want to make the Tagus
overflow with my tears
Or fixate the horizon
with my yearning gaze
But don’t cry for me, Lisboa
Wait for me instead
Keep me and my beloved alive
Honour us in your brightness,
in your poetry, in your fado songs
Pray for us in your churches
Cheer on us in the castle
Shine your light on in our hearts
Each night in my dreams
I dance with my beloved in your alleys
We make love under your stars
And one day, when fate aligns
I will return, I promise
to once again pick me and my beloved up
©RoseGirl2019
While reading your journal
you wrote me right into your heart
Where I walked together with you
on your journey
Every step I was by your side
Holding your hand
Crying your tears
Watching the sunrise
Hearing the heavenly music
of the sacred land
Seeing beyond and into other worlds
where spirits guide us
Feeling your roots growing into the earth
and receiving the blessing
Reaching a place of emotions
where words cannot come
Welcome home, my love
to the magic
of your own pure heart
©RoseGirl2019
When I see a picture of you
and can’t write a poem about it
as the picture is of such
beauty and vulnerability
that every word would detract
from the image that already is
pure poetry itself
©RoseGirl2019
And he said:
Love yourself as much
as you love me
You don’t want to hurt me,
then don’t hurt yourself
Don’t put yourself down
don’t judge yourself harshly
But talk to yourself
the way you write poetry
about me
and let your own dancing words
heal you from inside
©RoseGirl2019
Come home to yourself
Build up your own house
Discover every room
Own every spot
of who you are
For only there,
you will be at home
with me
©RoseGirl2019
And if I would paint the world
with all the colours of love
I feel for you in my heart,
there would be no grey spot
no more
©RoseGirl2019
And I bring the darkness to the light
The old stories, the fears, the shadows
The ego capitalism, all the consumption,
the needing, the wanting
my worthless possessions,
my illusions, my person protections,
the expectations, the assumptions
I let go and release
to start all over on the white of a new page
and let only love write further our story
©RoseGirl2019
I am like a running deer
I run from my fears
I run from myself
and thus from you
I run from happiness
I run from the past
but then with
wide open eyes I run
into its headlights
Here in the middle of these woods
where I run from my shadow,
let me drink
from the sacred pool of love
and let me again find stillness
©RoseGirl2019
Tears drop down
while Metallica’s
‘Nothing else matters’
is on the radio
Those free flowing
rocking tears
that know love so deeply
that they don’t care about
what others
may think no more
as the only truth
that matters
is in the heart
Tears that rock
for they miss you so much
They could shout it
over rooftops
Raw and powerful
How much they love you
They laugh and ache
and dance and scream
those rocking tears
©RoseGirl2019
Thank you, my love
for who you are
for the light that you shine
in my heart
for the poetry you make
in my life
for this special bond that we have
the eternal love that we share
for you being beautifully you
©RoseGirl2019
My mind keeps telling me
that I am lost, that all is lost
It runs, fears and worries
in all directions
And creates a dark maze
Though I only need to go
where my heart is
’cause that’s where you are
that’s where love is
that’s where I can find myself
A bright open space
where I’ll never be lost
©RoseGirl2019
The night that we saw each other
in the Dutch countryside
When I stepped out of my car
with high heels
I stepped into the mud
Among the cows I wore
a chic dress
And you were so beautiful
and stylish in your suit
And although in that entourage
we were both the only ones
that were completely out of tune
we were perfectly in tune
with each other
©RoseGirl2019
When the sun disappears,
daylight fades away,
it gets dark all around
and we can’t see
what is before us,
we need to look within
to find and shine
our inner light
to guide each other
©RoseGirl2019
You stand with your back
against a dartboard
As if you’re in the line of fire
And you expect life to throw
its arrows at you
But my darling,
cupido has already shot
the arrow of true love
right into the bullseye of your heart
so rest assured you’re protected
with love as your armour
you have nothing to fear
©RoseGirl2019
Show me all that is alive in you
Even if all seems dead and dark,
then show me that
Tell me more about your fears
of a grey Christmas
Images in hopeless black and white
Show me all the sadness
Flowers that are wilted and
a caged bird
Show me all, my darling
I’ll be your Christmas fairy
And I’ll blow the colours
and the magic back
into your inner world
©RoseGirl2019
Remember, my love
we are old souls
Infinite beings of light
We came here to
learn our lessons
by living our stories
as we have lived
many stories before
Although our path is hard
It’s never harder
than we can take
we’re equipped
with all that we need
we have each other
And all our pain
we carry it together
to transform it into
even brighter love
©RoseGirl2019
I feel your pain, my love
My heart is filled with it
As we are one,
it is mine too
Through my heart
I help you heal
©RoseGirl2019
And she asks the angels
to look after him
to wipe away his tears
and bandage his wounds
to stand before him,
behind him and
everywhere around
to lighten his path
to hold him
and to do all
that she now
cannot do herself
©RoseGirl2019
I hold you against my chest
My arms harbour you
Even if all falls apart
In my heart, in love
you’re always safe
and secure from any storm
©RoseGirl2019
Words like red lips kiss you
Letters, stylish dressed,
move their curves
and dance in front of you
Long-legged lines, playful rhymes
circle seductively around you,
take your breath
and make you beg
for more of my poetry
©RoseGirl2019
I send you one thousand kisses
so for every opportunity,
you’ll have a kiss in stock
Kisses to heal the wounds
in your heart
Kisses to celebrate your joys
Kisses to inspire
Kisses to warm you up
Kisses to calm you down
My kisses are multifunctional
multiple times usable
They get activated
by the power of thought
They have no additives
They are organic
as their only ingredient
is pure love
©RoseGirl2019
It may look like
the moon is not there tonight
but what no one can see
is that behind a curtain of clouds
she has her own heart-to-heart time
with her beloved, the sun
They exchange
She receives him deeply within
And as they dance silently
in devotion to each other
they make the seas move on earth
in undulating passion
of ebb and flow
©RoseGirl2019
And I take a breath
and pick you up
as I always pick you up
to fill me from the inside
with you
and to anchor in love
I pick you up
straight through all the fears
straight through the chaos
My breath find its way to you
to let you rise inside of me
to find back my strength
©RoseGirl2019
And if we were both
in a movie right now
Filmed by an all seeing eye
The watchers would see
A shot of me in the kitchen
while I cook a dinner
Staring, melancholic eyes
that try to find you
in my inner world
Perry Como’s song
‘It’s impossible’ plays
in the background
For it is impossible
not to think of you
Then a shot of you
in another scene,
another time zone,
another country
sitting in your chair
staring, melancholic eyes
that try to find me
in your inner world
Those two scenes
that play at the same time
on the same screen
that erase any distance
between us
Those watchers would see
infinite truth
©RoseGirl2019
When the pain of missing you
becomes almost unbearable
and is like a knife that pierces
my chest
When my mind can only think
in miles that lie between us
in words that haven’t been said
When my eyes only see
a big ocean before me
that separates two continents
and my heart cries yearning tears
then I dive into the healing
waters of poetry
to be together with you
in flowing words of love
©RoseGirl2019
The sea is wild
The waves almost seem violent
The way the water crashes onto us
But we have our solid raft
to hold on to
a strong foundation of poetry
and songs
to keep the hope alive
and to have courage
That always follows
the stream of our hearts
For no matter how dark the night is
and how loud the sea may rage
Love is always the strongest force of all
After every storm a calm will come
©RoseGirl2019
And under the moonlight
she walks
Her footsteps are heavy
as she carries a great burden
of guilt on her shoulders
Thoughts that say
She did something wrong
Because that’s what they told her
The moon looks down on the girl
and sees her struggle
Sees that the girl
all her life wanted to be good to others
And often just gave up on herself
‘Oh girl, put down your burden
It never has been yours
Be free, girl, love and dance
In order to be there for others
you first need to let your light
shine for yourself’
©RoseGirl2019
Pain is the shedding of skin
It is the caterpillar that dies
in his dark cocoon
to make room for the butterfly
Pain is to be physically
separated from you
Only to see that
in heart we’re never apart
It is stomach pain, headache,
sleepless nights that scream
to leave the old in the past
and let go to be free
Pain is questioning
what your soul whispers to you
It is resistance
as you fear the unknown
and you don’t want to hurt others
Pain is like squeezing contractions,
the movement of muscles to push out
and birth ourselves anew into our love
©RoseGirl2019
Only when
I’m completely myself,
I can love you completely
©RoseGirl2019
And in the eternal dance
of sun and moon,
The moon takes a step back
to hold space for
the sun, her beloved
to rise in all his beauty,
in his true shine
and to start a new day
She smiles lovingly
as she watches him
She has his back
His light shines within her
She feels all of his power
all of his strength,
his full potential
Just as her bright glow
always shines within him
©RoseGirl2019
In an attempt to send
myself to sleep
I do not count sheep
But I count you’s:
One you
Two….
Hey, wait!
Before me I see
only one you
and he doesn’t jump
over a fence
but stays
to stare at me
My one unmovable
true love,
unique sheep
©RoseGirl2019
Oh sexy man in suit,
that dreamy smile
in your eyes says it all,
You think of the night ahead
You think of your lady in dress
You think of a dinner for two,
a dance floor to conquer
You think of fiery lips that kiss
You think of fiery hands that touch
You think of a suit and a dress
on the floor
You think of…. oh boy, oh boy
©RoseGirl2019
I embrace the you in me
I give you a thousand kisses
And hold you so tenderly
and lovingly in the arms
of my inner world
May the you outside of me
feel the warmth inside of him
of this inner hug
©RoseGirl2019
If you wonder who you are,
what your place is
in this world,
how to name yourself,
Then know, you are
your inner light
and you always have
your place
with me in love
©RoseGirl2019