An Angel Waiting

I lay restlessly, upon the sheets of my bed, now soaked with perspiration. I tried in vain to sleep but drifted in and out of what I came to believe were the realities of my night.

I could see you there as real as though you were standing by my bed. “You are my comfort”, I told you. “You are my angel”. You give me your strength night after long night and even though you fade with the morning light, I know you will come to me again.

The window though closed seemed to be open and the leaves of the tree outside drifted inside. They fell to the floor to accumulate like a soft carpet and fell atop my pillow by my head. Each night these were my realities. I called to you and you came as though no walls could hinder your presence by my bed.

Beacon of darkest night
Portent of life
Guardian of my soul

You could have been a dream but each night you returned when I called. Who is to say what is real.

© July 2017 Renee Espriu

I quickly took out my watercolors and acrylics to create something to go with this newest post. I had been thinking of this image and so rather than ponder it too much, which I have a tendancy to do, I painted what it was my mind saw.

Dream (2)

 

 

***A Siphon For Dreams***

The night is a siphon for dreams
drifting thru stars & moonbeams

nudging in its’ turn each muse
igniting imaginations’ fuse

visiting angels night’s shadows
a lighting of a candles’ tallow

© March 2017 Renee Espriu

This is in response to Jamie Dedes’ Wednesday Prompt. You can see more of this post at https://jamiededes.com/2017/03/29/but-not-the-night-a-poem-and-your-wednesday-writing-prompt. The image below was taken from Morgue File & Digitized by Myself.

The Night

I Feel An Angel

Night Dew Angels

Altered Google Image

while the crescent moon
is high in the sky
somewhere between
dawn & midnight

I feel an angel
pass by this way

when the dampness of dew
is held softly on grass
looking much like tears
shed in sadness cast

I feel an angel
pass by this way

my mind wraps ’round
old sayings & things
‘when you hear a bell
an angel gets their wings’

I feel an angel
pass by this way

when I smell the scent
of a forgotten perfume
or fragrant flowers
within my room

I feel an angel
pass by this way

though scripted not
in the time after passing
& the harshness
of the hour has gone
never lasting

I feel an angel
pass by this way

now of spiritual grace
they fill the space
so unforgiving
once void of all
that was
theirs’ in living

I feel an angel
pass by this way

© October 2013

Renee Espriu

Thirteen

Grafetti

Digital Drawing  2013 Renee Espriu

smokin’ cigarettes
back of the deli
her father owned

bet he never knew
she took them…
neither did my mom
know i smoked

i had an angel
on my shoulder
at thirteen

© February 2013
Renee Espriu

Hope I haven’t offended the Graffiti artists of the world as really, I normally, do not do this type of art but had fun with it in any case.

This is for dVerse Poets Pub at http://dversepoets.com/street-culture/

Dance With Angels

angels playing music

Google Image

beside your photo she dances
a tiny figurine of a girl
she twirls ’round showing
how much she loves to dance
reminding me of you as
now you dance with angels

© January 2013
Renee Espriu

I was reminded that January 17th it is five years to the day that mom left but is really never gone. I love that she is yet another angel in my life.

 

 

This is for the Small Stone Challenge January 2013. You can find them at http://www.writingourwayhome.com . This is Small Stone #17.

Higher and Higher

Altered Google Image

i could not protect you
as you climbed
high upon the tree

thin spindly arms
you climbed higher
ever higher…free

’til you sat high above
waving to me
angel of everything

i still can’t protect you
as you still climb
forever the tree of life

© October 2012
Renee Espriu

Image Reflections

Reflections of our images               
held captive by the sun
burned into the surface
an afterglow reference for
the angel you’ve become
reflections of your image

 

© March 2012 Renee Espriu

Do you believe in Angels? I do and believe they are walking amongst us.

Quote by Michaelangelo

I like this quote by the great artist as I believe the same can be said of writing. We have only to write down our thoughts to set them free.

 

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

Michelangelo