Laughter and Dancing

They met still young before children arrived
with love in their hearts and stars in their eyes
a future unfurled beneath sunrises,  sunsets
a world of youth left behind in their wake
with dreams or hopes that hid in the mist

of days that rolled out into months and years
enhanced with laughter and bittersweet tears
but he laughed and she danced to the music sweet
of life’s changing Seasons a tentative beat

times were a wash with hardship and longing
of dreams sought,  built on sand always shifting
where the sun might shine bright in her eyes
she would dance,  be young and he would sigh

once were parted,  now a story of one more chance
he is laughing as he is watching her dance
&  if you listen closely to the heavens above
are entwined in the sunset, both still in love
where eternity unfurls and the sun has risen

© March 2021 Renee Espriu

This poem dedicated to my dad who passed away March 13, 2021. A long life of laughter. He will be missed.

The Photo Taken is My Own of My Dad and I a Few Years Back.

A Single Wink In Time

Powder blue painted firmament
inhaled in a single breath
a cushioned cradle for my soul

hands ciphering the distance
to embrace this tranquility
to coalesce this miracle

sun’s warmth salubrious
rays pulse gold nuggets of life
a radiant fragrant aloe balm

touching a single wink of time
becoming a scope of magnitude
am shrouded in a calm destiny

weighted heavens are buoyant
evident of stellar celestial bodies
emanating love and I am home

© November 2017 Renee Espriu

The photo combination below was taken from Public Domain Pictures and digitally altered by myself.

Wink In Time

 

Star Dust Applause

when will the knowing come
of when you will need me
before the Spring snow melts
as glacier waters freeing

as tidal pools are not
brimming forth with
ocean creatures spiny life

when celestial heavens
spill forth the stars to
create another Milky Way
 with star dust applause

when will this knowing come
candescent as a candle flame
in your beauty that is you

it will come without knowing
in the richness of your life
like filtered sun into my heart
woven tightly all the threads
amidst vast and cloudless skies

© September 2012
Renee Espriu