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The secret dust of flight and freedom (Your bliss is my bliss)

I cradle the serendipity of us
In my open hands, a phenomena
Careful not to displace any of the butterfly dust
The secret dust of flight and freedom
Of colour illusion transcending artist pallet
It’s all about the angles and the depth
Just like our lives

Open hearted love
No certainty (what has… in life… certainty?)
But such a sense of safety and care

In the open bowl of awe and pleasure
Where we frolic like swallows in a birdbath
Happy as children in a pile of autumn leaves
With the tenderness of those who know
What it is to love and lose…. so definitively
                                                                               So eternally

You feel like home
You could breathe inside my breathing
I wear your diamonds
The ones that form in your eyes for me

You affirmed my suppositions
Then spread your radiance and warmth throughout me once again
Until I am the sky swimming selky
And I offer up my skin to you
You may keep me
As long as I may sing still in the solitude of imagery
That I must keep for company

I will be the myriad of goodness I can conjure for your life
I will be for you

You gently sound my chime
Anni-bell
Hear it curl across the clouds at sunset’s mango lush crescendo
Feel it slip beneath your skin
Intoxicate your senses as it blooms within your vessels
Flowering with softest scented petals as it flows into your heart
Bea - ting
Rhy - thm
Pri - mal
Heady my love

Resuscitation

My one
The odds were unlikely at best
But you found me
I would never have guessed

The children curl like sated kittens finally at rest
Between, across, beside
Basking in the fireside warmth of our affection
A 'happy ever after' nestled on the couch
Reflections of their parentage
The honesty, the easy joy, the humanistic spark
And the comfort of the open hearted warmth
Your bliss is my bliss
— Cloudthings, Oct 15, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Australia, regional Victoria, AUS

Favorite Poets: So many... Rumi, Spike Milligan, Keats. Many of the Neopoet clan, past & present. A myriad of song writers, Dylan, Jackson Browne, Lior, & I must add the poetic influence of painters, sculptors & creators across the world... Life really, especially the sky.

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Critiques

Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 7 months ago

Anni-bell

A sensational and beautiful love story, gentle soul. I cannot pick favorite lines because they are all spellbinding. Fantastic imagery... I still have stars in my eyes from reading your lovely words of love. Always, Cat
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years 7 months ago

May your eyes retain that sparkle & let it shine your shadows aw

Thanks Cat, you do feel so familiar, like you crave that same gentle, contented comfort I always have, I hope you have found it dear woman. I am most pleased to have inspired such sparkles in your eyes... always a lovely thing... the privilege of the loving I suspect. I can see them & they suit you. May your eyes retain that sparkle & let it shine your shadows away! With love Anni~ "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace". H.H. the Dalai Lama
Ravenshakti

Ravenshakti

16 years 7 months ago

Dear Anni...

This poem is a lovely melody of and to the heart... It has a smooth and soothing quality. Beauty and grace... a sublime combination. With my love, Raven.
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years 7 months ago

I feel honoured to be blessed by it along with these lovely word

Dear Raven, I suspect your love is a precious & worthy thing so I feel honoured to be blessed by it along with these lovely words. Thank you. With my love for your Raven wings Anni~ "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace". H.H. the Dalai Lama
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 7 months ago

I was lost...

In the poem... such beautiful skies. Diamonds sparkled in my brain as I read your lines. Lit with Mother's colors, feeling with my psyche, I was entranced. Hig bugs, for you and all of yours. ~ Gee
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years 7 months ago

Thanks lovely Gee, in a way, you've been part of this lovely "Ha

Thanks lovely Gee, in a way, you've been part of this lovely "Happy ever after" with it's diamonds more precious than any physical jewels... You with your simple love story of your 3rd wife & your colourful history... you who watched & encouraged the healing & budding of the best love I may ever have known. You will always be so dear to me for having shared that early history & been so constantly there in the warmest way. ... & now, you see the fruit of that delivered for your pleasure (I hope) Cheers Anni~ "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace". H.H. the Dalai Lama
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 7 months ago

I am thrilled...

That I could be here and watch it all unfold. I read your beautiful note to my wife and she was as happy as I that you took the time to let me know this. She and I often talk about the mail I get from the people here on Neo. She knows most of my friends here, and she is as happy for you as I. She always hears the salutations from all. She is proud that we could be somewhat of an inspiration for you and your scientist. She and I send our most hearty and warm thank yous, for this lovely note. Hig bugs and some love to feed them, ~ Gee and Wendy.
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years 7 months ago

thank you, that is a really beautiful raw compliment

Ah Theo, I suspect that someone probably has... you are an amazing presence here, I can't imagine what that would be like in real life, intense I suspect & wonderful I imagine... But thank you, that is a really beautiful raw compliment... I wish I had more time here to keep up with your writing, I love reading it, you must know. Cheers Anni~ "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace". H.H. the Dalai Lama
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Dalton

16 years 7 months ago

Dear Cloudthings

I could not improve this poem if I tried. And wouldn't want to change a word, a syllable, a comma. I love (as I am a hopeless romantic) the honesty of your words, it flows like nectar made in heaven. Five stars, I shall keep an eye out for your verse. Thankyou for this one. Your bliss is my bliss. Love Dalton.
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years ago

wish you bliss & indeed extend an invitation to share my own...

Dearest Dalton, how did I miss this lovely comment from you? It seems so long ago really & I am here so very rarely & briefly at that... In any case, I hope not to have disappointed you by changing a number of lines & commas. In any case I do wish you bliss & indeed extend an invitation to share my own... it is always best shared, don't you think. I miss you & your writing, I plan to make some time soon to go searching for my fave poets & the new. You dear thing you have such a kind & generous heart, you are blessed & thus so are we. Cheers Anni~ "Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]." Bertrand Russell