A Petticoat Diary

A Petticoat  ( female ) Diary/..........By Sami Khalil

(She lived in hope , died in despair)

Her desire to be loved and to love for there were no suitors for marriage.

Based on a true story when I was growing up

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On those days...

She dances like wild flowers

fluted by dulcet tones

gazing in sweet sorrow

upon utter solaces.

She, who passed star-lights

became a shadow of under-toned shimmers

wandering through life's wild affections

where heavy sighs became her measured void

looking for bucolic warm glows silhouetted 

in sweet sensations.

On those nights...

She cradles dreams in tender desires

in a veil of bashful smiles

where the indelible ink is saved 

for someone special...for keeps.

Still, she deserves a golden ring

and a clandestine house with stepping

stones to paradise of petaled gardens

where love is tickled to death for eternity.

On those months...

She survives in timeless beauty

brush-stroking the outlines of

her erasable heart, looking for 

hands to recreate her rapture d joy

living on just because; of fantasies 

on rainy afternoons with no parasols

losing herself in the chill of winters.

On those years...

Constellations glow brightly

and dim softly in sashays of dusted

apparitions when she dances her

last dance!

On those diaries...

Reviews

[Neville]

Fantastic Sami, you really scored top marks for this beautiful poetic creation. Great stuff indeed. All Good Things, N

[L.Edward]

Condensed beauty. Like flowers distilled to their essential oil. Less is more in this case. But no less pleasing for it.

[Souladareatease]

Gorgeous Sami...I so Love this---such quiet sadness-such Beauty and Grace...im kind of stuck to describe for it is very moving Kind Sir!!!
Most excellent Painting You have created!!!

[Pax]

a lonely poem... it tells a sad tale ~ i found this quote online and it says:
the hardest test in Life is the patience to wait for the right moment.
~ and that quote is well fitted to the poem...
Beautifully sad poem!

[annie lee]

What beautiful artwork to accompany the mood of this poem. You build the timeline gently, almost transparently. Her shyness, her quiet , the buried despair and the hope that refuses to die are so eloquently expressed here. and that last line is like a bouquet of dried flowers found pressed in an ancient book or a solitary tombstone covered with moss and uncared for. This is really special. By the way, do you know what happened to Freida P?

[Red & Blue]

The finishing line was to die for! I like how you place stunning images with the poem, it works splendidly.
A beautiful write dear.

[Coyote Poetry]

The artwork was beautiful. The poem was amazing. I enjoy the story in the poem. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[Stella Armour]

she was too special, for anything but perfect love and it never found her.. sad and very beautiful Sami....

[quinfinn]

beautifully composed, this is a wordplay masterpiece...each line plays trippingly off the tongue and rolls into the mind like a fine mist of delicate imagery and metaphor laced fantasy...well penned!

[Kristin Lee]

Very lovely yet, so sad. Bittersweet memories captured with a poets delicate pen. Great job Sami.