Love Birds

~ a collage poem written for the collage poetry challenge ~

Art by Vasile Movileanu

 

 

 

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As birds are fitted to the boughs

twined together and as is customary

we sing together; we sing mouth to mouth

and in the sweetest passage of a song

all the longings of a lifetime answered

I look at you and sigh...

 

~~~

 

Written for the Collage Poetry Challenge

 

(1) Louis Simpson

(2) Robert Graves

(3) Theodore Roethke

(4) Alice Meynell

(5) John Stallworthy

(6) W.B. Yeats

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

dear MSJewel!! every one of your poems i read i am inspired, uplifted and electrified to a high goal of wondrous love and sensuality .. congratulations on this collage!! going into my library .. sending it to my love ;) so glad to follow you sweat one! this to me is spectacular spectacular :)
E.

[MsJewel]

I'm humbled by your generous words. Thank you so much :) Julie

[MomzillaNC]

Cool! :D

[MsJewel]

Thank you :) Julie

[MomzillaNC]

:) yvw

[Patricia Wedel]

dear Julie... A sweet collage of
passion where feathers touch and
feelings are held in boughs of
blossoms. truly... Pat

[Matching Socks]

I love what you've done here Julie. :)
A fine piece!

[R Smith]

thank you Julie, an interesting idea for a challenge, I would say you did a remarkable work, hope you're successful, you deserve to be :)

[WILDERNESS]

Beautiful ... you shift the paradigm to some romantic land. Lovely poem.

[stars are far]

That was very beautiful, you set me speechless..
well done

[lenabean]

I like this poem! It is very short and sweet. I liked the imagery of "singing mouth to mouth;" I feel like it's a metaphor for kissing. Overall, this has a springy and earthy feel to it, and I enjoy that in relation to love. Well done!

[Sameer]

Truly romantic you made the beautiful school days alive... Very simple and deep. I liked the last line " in the sweetest passage of the song, all the longings of a lifetime answered" beautiful.

[Coyote Poetry]

Beautiful use of words and art. The poem was amazing. Dear Julie, you did a excellent job with the words.
Coyote

[jacob erin-cilberto]

singing mouth to mouth...the sweet, passionate melody of the kiss


nicely done.

you had Yeats on the list...reminds me of how excited sylvia plath was about moving into her final house...the one that he had lived in, and it still had the plaque on the door, "yeats lived here"
perhaps he lives within your words.

[MsJewel]

I didn't know that about Sylvia Plath. Wouldn't that be amazing to live where Yeats had lived...read moreI didn't know that about Sylvia Plath. Wouldn't that be amazing to live where Yeats had lived...
“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
One of my favorites... :) Julie