Come, smell these roses Aren’t the hyacinths Divine Like you my Goddess Your petals so soft Birds and bees in Harmony Unfurling from bud Flower blossoming To promising potential Soft scent lingering The sky is so blue As sweet nectar drips from tongue An eagle flies high Painting pink pictures You tie me up in red knots Abandon me blue The ocean is deep Bottomless abyss of Love You are not ready "I do not want to Lead you down the garden path" You already did I look behind me Leaves are falling from branches Under heavy sky Flowers are wilting As water evaporates Cracks appear in Earth I’ve been here before I won’t linger this time on The path to nowhere I refuse to wear Thorny rose coloured glasses Nor hold up the sky The West wind she blows Cumulous silver lined clouds Part in streams of light I know where to go A place you cannot enter With your head intact ©The Bendy Witch
This poem and musings below has been sat in my drafts for a month or so, waiting for the right time to be shared. It seems that time is now as it follows on nicely from my last blog Exploring Expectation, Attachment & Potential…
I love playing with Haiku. Each verse in this poem is made of 5,7,5 syllables. As a detail orientated person that can get overwhelmed with possibilities, Haiku helps me to condense and clarify succinctly what I am really feeling and where I am at.
Poetry can be a form of Self therapy that can help us see our deepest patterns. Our poetry reflects what is driving us subconsciously for better or worse. Writing our feelings on a page requires vulnerability, helps us to more easily see our Truth, where our pain is, where our passion is, where our desires are not being met, where we are projecting, where we may need more self reflection, more patience, more tolerance or less!
Some poems reflect what I call, the Universal Nervous System, where we write not necessarily what is going on directly in our own experience, but become a channel for what is “up” in the collective consciousness. Sometimes words comes through us that another is unable to express. As Poets we can present you with a mirror that you may or may not want to look in, slip uncomfortable Truths under the radar of your mind with arrows of verse that hit you straight in the Heart.
A Poet has to be careful not to idealise Love. I’ve most certainly been guilty of that in the past. Part of our job is to keep the hope of Love alive and yet not let it become an unquenchable quest of unrealised, unrealistic expectations.
This poem is about Love’s potential in all its newness, that doesn’t guarantee it will be long lasting. No matter how conscious we think we are, when it comes to Human Love, it’s a messy, complicated business. When Love appears intensely and unexpectedly it can have the potential to radically shift the trajectory of our lives. Sometimes the mind can come in and kill the Magick, sometimes one person may simply not be ready and that’s okay. Sometimes the purpose of the relationship is not to last. A new person may be a catalyst, a stepping stone in our journey, they lead us to knew places where we need to be but they may not stay.
Have you ever written a poem or song to help you move beyond heartache? If you are holding onto resentments from past relationships, maybe there’s one (or ten!) in you that wants to come out.
In this poem I see how, in the last few years, amidst disappointments and heartaches, I’ve grown and matured in matters of Love. I have come to know my own Heart, to find the well of Love already inside me. This well of Love will not allow disappointments to build a wall around my Heart. I know what I want, what I’ll accept and what I won’t. There is a new level of confidence emerging in how I relate in matters of Love and that feels very liberating.
Meditating with the affirmations “I AM Love”, “I AM Lovable” and “Life Loves Me” can be very helpful in dis-creating beliefs to the contrary that can lead us into unhealthy relationship patterns as we try to find out from the outside if we are loveable, instead of knowing it as a Truth from within. If you’d like to learn how to Meditate effectively with Heart Mantras and Affirmations you can join me on Monday nights 7.30pm for Meditation Cafe. See The Silent Revolution for registration links.
If you like this poem and Haiku, you might also like Lets Hook Up.
P.S. In the spoken word version of the poem, can you hear where the boat farts! Yes Lily Pearls farts! It’s actually the sound of the water pump 🤣
The Bendy Witch 