winding forest path
light penetrates
leaves refracting space
© May 2018 Renee Espriu
The Essence of Loving
Not everyone celebrates all of the days, that our present day society has intimated to be profitable in the commercialized world, but most people celebrate mothers. Even those who haven’t any knowledge of a birth mother may still wish to pay homage to a woman who has been a strong influence in their life. My own mother has been gone now ten years but I always try to remember her every day apart from the day it is marked on the calendar. Hope everyone has a woman who has impacted their life such as their own mother or another. There are two photos here taken from Public Domain Images. One is of the ocean and the other of lilacs, two things in the world my mother liked best. I like to add my own touch to make it uniquely mine.
Memories now clear to be revealed
like sparkling sand crystals
showing brilliant in the sun
as ocean tides bring them back
time and time again acting
as a giant hourglass
unblemished
untarnished
as life colors
blemish
to distort
i see only the essence of you
i smell only the balm of you
as the fragrance of roses
lilacs reaching
to touch
the sun
the baking of pies in the oven
buttermilk biscuits warm
the scent of meals cooked
with the spices of love
reaching to touch me
embraced with warmth
nourishing
my heart
my soul
birth is proliferation
whereas love
is a good measure
never tallied
only leavened
ever grown
© May 2018 Renee Espriu
Touched by a Breeze
Life has been in constant flux these past months. Thank you to all who have patiently waited to see me once again. The photo below taken from Public Domain Pictures with added creativity on my part.
years are diminished by a miasma
of hazy thoughts and feelings
swept along by the wind
settling for no reason
inside your mind
inside your heart
like a detective in quest
of answers you review the matter
time and again peeling back layers
trying in vain to reach the core
only to find
it empty
only it is your inability to see
a clouded vision of debris
a continuum of detritus
collecting quietly
disguised in comfort
congealing
at your feet
but as the wind becomes a breeze
it beckons you to come
to engage in your life
in living
to become
who you are
© Renee Espriu April 2018
Mixed Media Art
I finished this before my recent move. It is a mixed media of acrylics, watercolor, colored pencil, and collage. My daughter has accepted it for her new home where she also just finished moving to.
Silver Threads Of Nature
Two photos were taken from Public Domain Pictures and digitally altered by myself.
I will leave you the peace in my soul
that will find you in the love of my heart
for I will leave you the memories shared
whether joyous dancing on the stage of life
or sadness fading in the shadows of day
for life has woven me a colorful garment
with silver threads of nature’s wisdom
that has hollowed out a place for you
where warm you will be in the sun’s embrace
followed by the path of a starlit moon
within which voices will sing in stardust
to lull you to sleep at the end of each day
where always you will wake to bird song
within which you will hear my voice true
giving you the peace within my soul
surrounded by the love within my heart
© January 2018 Renee Espriu
Angels Infinite
A symbiotic relationship in
a universe stretching infinite
where stars are like angels
their wings as chariots
taking flight becoming
a safe harbor for the soul
now desolate with grief
now hungry for peace
now joyous in its’ vision
however brief that it too
will be immersed
in that infinity
© January 2018 Renee Espriu
Dreams of Flight
Closing my eyes dream like synapses
coalesce images of youthful fears
tainted by mountain high and
valley lows of emotions
feathered wings in flight I fancied
releasing me from my humble dawning
with the smell of lemons and lilacs
growing against a backdrop of cement
tainted with the odors of asphalt
on the other side of town peppered
with factory workers, shop owners
life ached for gleaming upscale as
housewives tended children crying
dutiful lives of status quo
but only dreams took me flying
into the darkness of night
smelling of sweet honeysuckle
scaling walls of rising freedom
as now all dreams of tender youth
have left me I no longer fear
nor struggle from whence I came
for the spring of my soul
bubbles forth a peace within
© January 2018 Renee Espriu
The Moon Waxing Gibbous
Image Taken From Public Domain Pictures and Digitally Altered by Myself.
The moon waxing gibbous yet still
slicing a swath of brilliant light
as a star cloaked in clouds of grey
heralds in another new year
while fallen leaves rain-soaked
leave paths of design wind-blown
on still another cold winter night
speaking in cursory tones of apathy
clothed in ice or frosty breath
billowing as tiny puffs of clouds
as revelers send fireworks skyward
each past year is now a footprint
knowing garnered as grains of sand
stitched into the living fabric
of each life taking every step
along an ocean bathed
in luminous moonlight
as unique as the night sky filled
with a moon waxing gibbous
© December 2017 Renee Espriu
May everyone have a Peace filled 2018.
Ethereal Notes
The piano notes not my own
floating ethereal around me
speak of lullabies played
soothing tiny souls to sleeping
vestiges of the golden moments
when a youthful heart dreamt being
bright-colored fancied whimsy
silver spun silken blossoms
to be woven into a shining dawn
in sun rays spilling rainbows
resplendent new and undone
for as the notes dance before me
the hours softly melting away
reiterates life’s fluctuations
not crafted to make my own
© December 2017 Renee Espriu
Image taken from Public Domain Pictures and digitally altered by myself.
Memories Dying Embers
I see you tangibly close beside me
laughter still within you
a smile on your face
do you still see me here & now
or a trace of a girl dancing
brevity of memories hinting at life
shared with children…with her
do you know she is gone traveling
with the moon & stars in heaven
I see you tangibly close beside me
laughter still within you
a smile on your face
do you know your time has shifted
as the sands within the tides
ensnaring the memories you captured
now scattered fragments of light
still your eyes embrace her once more
a cherished resemblance of me
wisps of years gone encircling you
briefly in moments & then vanishing
I see you tangibly close beside me
laughter still within you
a smile on your face
the embers are still glowing brightly
not ready to engage in dying
I know your spirit still resides within
I know there still is you smiling
© December 2017 Renee Espriu
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