of little purple flowers

For Kerry's Sunday Challenge #1

 

Cherry orchards are beautiful this time of year

 

memories of you  , I

 

surrounded in the comforts of spring

 

warm and pastel light

 

a beginning

 

we lay within those purple flowers

 

I never knew the names of

 

pink blossoms slipping from the sky 

 

like the snow thought left behind

 

 

 

 

secrets

 

how they burn within  

 

yours ravaging the soul

 

your hidden heart torn

 

the words you couldn't say 

 

and your bed of novels   

 

how your dreams floated on others words 

 

and you wished , and wished ,  and wished

 

that somehow  ,  I was the one  

 

  

 

 

I lay on the rock by that tiny lake  

 

my eyes closed

 

and you tickled my ear

 

"wake up you beautiful man"

 

in your delicate hand , a blue feather

 

you wearing a sunny halo

 

the gulls circled and called in the sky

 

you curved your body over mine 

 

 

 

 

I lay awake at night

 

eyes staring back into the black  

 

trying not to remember

 

and it's raining

 

I think of you crying

 

tears you were never afraid of

 

buried in loneliness

 

and I swing at the night

 

reality crushing 

 

with no goodbye

 

your final gesture

 

 

 

 

and now ,

 

I walk along this shore

 

under the struggling sun

 

and I hear a cry

 

on the wings of a gull

 

remembering your face to the sea

 

and little purple flowers

 

here , alone

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[E.H. Monroe]

m***********s...
all of you today..
this gave me bad nausea and bad memories..this was the KR disappearnce just done better and more poetic and draped in royal purple...

what the f**k can I say? "The sadness is overwhelming" Blah blah f*****g blah. Its not even something you can talk about because its a living thing in the room fueled on tears and shadows.


A plus you savage...a f*****g plus

[Emily B]

remembering is sometimes brutal . . . but sometimes it hugs us warm as little purple flowers

[Ladysue]

oh Robin your words sing such a sad, but beautiful harmony...I gasped more than once...this flowed with utter beauty...truly touching...

[realmwriter]

This is wonderfully written, A flawless piece! Its as if I'm rite there seeing it first hand!

[OT]

ahh an instant favourite - stunning work Robin - bittersweet - tones of melancholy - "your bed of novels how your dreams floated on other's words" - just brilliant work as always - I think you've won!!! haha! bra-f***ing-vo!

[Matthew Kult]

Tragic, left me breathless.

Regards,

Matthew

[Christie Moses]

oh this aches like a bittersweet bleed....
so unbelievably beautiful. It left my heart feeling sad as I am sure others felt the pain of loss and soul in your words as well. Amazing piece of writing.

[Tommy]

As a cherry blossom, this piece is delicate like the love it adorns…Lonely nights weathering the storms… And in the memory of love, she was gone…With all our thoughts struggling to keep their memoires alive, a single pedal in an orchard of flowering trees, it’s a lonely feeling…I think you captured the feel of the play quite well Robin…

Great Write!
RLG,
Tommy

[MuSe Ampoule]

Greatly done! Relationships fail leaving us frail and hollow and wandering. Wonderful answer to Kerry's challenge...she's going to have her work cut out for her.

[Brad]

this has that rod mckuen flavor to it, one of my favorite poets...bravo, brothah, but you do realize that you cannot be in any contest that i'm in don'tchoo? that's simply not fair, mr.