red poppy song
It’s Hallowe’en this weekend in the northern hemisphere, and Beltaine in the southern. It’s traditionally a time to embrace the darkness, and then release it.
It’s harder than it seems, sometimes.
red poppy song belongs to the following groups:
A New Aesthetic.... Divine and Otherwise , Blue Room, Lesbian and Bi-Women's Art, Melbourne & Victoria, Pleasure & Pain, Short stories - Spherical Scriptings, The Red Writing Room, The Sensual Word and WMGThere’s this thing you do with the corner of your mouth, when you need to stem emotion. It almost makes you look like you’re trying not to laugh, but I know better.
I know you pour honey in your whiskey but swallow with a shudder that makes me smile. I know you murmur in your sleep, words I could never catch. I know the taste of your fingers and the heat of your thigh between mine. I know you’ve kept that photo, playing guitar with my feet in your lap and blood red poppies woven along your fretboard as we sang. I know where my copy is, but I don’t look at it anymore. I know I still can’t swallow when I hear your name.
And I know I’ve been trying to wash you off my skin for so many seasons, but your ink has pooled into my pores and seeped down deep. In a certain light, I can still read you on my body.
There’s this thing I do with a tilt of my head, when I’m trying to breathe evenly. It almost makes me look like I’m in control, but you know better.
© bellmusker 2009
Lisa Jewell
Some cannot be washed off the skin….
I fell heavily into this piece, Babe….you paint such strong imagery.
xox
Lawford
mmmm
JaneSolomon
I am totally mesmerised…..an emotional conjuring. xx
jim marshal
God that was beautiful, so descriptive and accessible. Maybe the tattoo is not the ink.
jemimalovesbigted
its funny, I have been dreaming about all my past boyfriends this week and its unusual… perhaps its to do with Beltaine…
This was wonderful Bell. x
erich biemer
beautiful but poignant all the same….loss comes by many names…
Matthew Dalton
Is it worth learning a language that can only be spoken with one other?
There is wisdom, self knowing, in that last paragraph which made me smile.
lianne
In a certain light, I can still read you on my body…that is just sublime Bell. The entire piece is so haunting, filled with longing for a lost dream, exquisitely painful. And profoundly true and beautiful. xo
Steve Strodder...
im liking the idea of releasing darkness…thanks so much for that bit of inspiration I might just use it if you dont mind :)
TheWanderingBoo
your words are so haunting and deeply emotional…beautiful writing…
Christopher Wr...
Physically affected by an emotional condition… emotionally affected by a physical condition…I’ve caught your sickness…here, lie on this tapis, the poppy will help you forget.
roybarry
When is it going to end?
When am I going to be emotionally conditioned enough, to not get goosebumps when I experience the world through your eyes?
Bell-you’re not a writer, you’re one of Dickens ghosts, from “A Christmas Carol”, visiting me often, scooping me up and placing me slap bang in the middle of living, breathing, sliver of time.
Yoanna
No comments – just my compliments.
Kudos for that.
Teacup
It is harder at times than others to release the darkness that engulfs… an amazing piece as ever Bell… beautiful with a deep sigh of sadness x
Pip Gerard
dam!! In my eyes… that was just perfect!!
trwoody
Enchantingly exquisite, you’ve taken us to the inner sanctum of memories. With out judgement or criticism, only true emotions
Kristin Reynolds
gorgeous writing, so emotive and sensual…and longingly beautiful.
SPlogos
wow, so perfect and so succinct. As you said, harder than it seems to release it. beautiful
Wordslinger
This is really fantastic. It made me feel something, not sure exactly what. But the fact is I felt it. great stuff.
LittleHelen
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LittleHelen
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berndt2
brilliant – love how the specfic itemised facts are unique, but the emotions beneath are completely universal
Holly Ringland
oh my pagan girl…
your words breathe life and colour and heart into the whispers of everything left unsaid in the shadows. light and dark, tender and bruise… you manage to cup and articulate the pain and joy of regeneration with such a deft touch. this reached deep into my belly, where the shadows are, and scattered a few poppies about… though i don’t know if i’ll visit their garden often. i’ll know they’re there and maybe that will be enough.
i adore this piece bell. it is vibrant with grief and hope. happy hallowe’en my girl xxx
Dwayne Boyd
Excellent
burntblue
gorgeous… beautiful refrain. Melancholy and sweet.
raymondoantonio 28 days ago
BELLISSIMO! LOVE AND LOSS IS LIKE THAT SOMETIMES!!
PJ Ryan 28 days ago
so beautiful, such an ache, i know x
Rex Inkpen 28 days ago
soulful beautiful work… wonderful images underpinned by deep strong undercurrents.
ArcadiaTempest 27 days ago
pass the whisky….I need a little nip after reading this to steady my heart….beautiful writing can do that to me…X
butchart 27 days ago
your words always wrap themselves around me …fighting them is futility…............b
erika15 27 days ago
Oh….the ending is like the beginning. It comes full circle, emotions dance inside the circle like black flames….Your words are always so delectable for me, I don’t know why. x
walela 27 days ago
This is so wonderful!! Hauntingly beautiful!
drpepper73 26 days ago
This gave me goosebumps, wonderfully written. xo
zarkhoc 26 days ago
You almost made me cry… or maybe I’m about to cry. So much emotion, life, love, sadness, passion… love it! really nice…
Jane17 18 days ago
oh wow, you touch the emotional response through your sensory language. Very good writing!