PETALS - Poems and Prose

Vol. 1

Symphony No. 2

- composed and arranged by Dawn Els

HAUNTING ECHOS FROM THE PAST
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Suddenly

sound, melody –

what is happening,

what do I hear

what comes to my ear

these echoes

reaching into my soul,

my heart repeats,

and it beats

stronger and stronger

I am shaking,

captured

by gentle touch

a love that loved me

is now embracing me.

Oh my heart

do take flight

I’ll follow…..

There is no noise,

it is the voice

calling from long, long ago.

“Follow, follow the path,

I was with you all the time.

Find me, find me again

Love me again as I have loved you

And still do.

I never betrayed you,

my spirit has been with you

Come, come love me again

let us play together,

run and fly together

roam our beautiful world.

You know me, follow, follow your heart

come to me soon,

I showed you where to start.

Let us be one again.

My heart is beating,

my legs go lame

can this be true

that my love had never forsaken me,

my true love loved me always

and guided me here?

I remembered my lover’s caress

and seeked it again one day

from a distance only.

My lover is beautiful but could I

do justice to this beauty,

can the world see with my eyes?

I painted my lover to the world

and the world saw and accepted

my beautiful lover.

Aah, how I hear you now my sweet love

do you hear my heart beating

see my feet dancing with joy?

My spirits rejoice with me,

we take flight on our song,

on the four winds we loosen ourselves,

become naked,

stripped of the chains

and the moon blushes

when she sees my wild soul.

Your echoes have reached me

confronted me, captured me.

I am yours and you are mine.

I hear you, oh voice in my soul,

I run on the rhythm in my heart.

A melody of love has risen again

where you always existed

now I can see far again.

my reason for life

now understood

in the completeness

of my existence.

I grow on your strength

You are my world

Your respect is my space

You freed me.

We meet again my sweet,

how I loved you always.

I’ll stay with you forever

as long as the Grand Maestro

allows it in this world.

And after harvest time

we shall sing on forever

our praise, our song.

ENTICING THE SHY ONE
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Little rays break through

and lights begin to shine

beams run across the valley

my spirit flies up into the sky

to see

I see it, I run after it…..

oh what is this call I hear

I can feel it

so very near.

NO! NO! STOP

I don’t know this

it has a strange sound

that moves up into the sky

and back to the ground.

There it is!

there it rolls and glides with its tail caught

it is so pretty when it moves

and I shall go a little closer

and hope it won’t get loose.

It saw me!

It turns around

this millipede, this funny thing

stares at me a long time

and suddenly begins to sing.

I am not scared now

I cup my ears and listen

It is a beautiful song I know.

More voices chip in

and then I also follow.

I loosen the millipede’s tail.

We dance and and sing

not knowing the time of day

circling around in the fields.

Oh! Up with the shields!

A grumpy thing!

“You are not allowed to pass

until you can say my name”

this bloop says to me.

I think it is a game.

Bloop sings with a big voice

I repeat exactly what he says

and even in the second round I win

I run into a third, even before bloop

better than bloop and tease him.

Oops, Bloop has an army!

My eyes are big, my ears wide open

but I like the song, I know the song

and sing it happily to the end

and after that I carry on.

Millipede sits on my tongue

My spirits sing with me

and we begin to dance

and is does not take long

before Bloop and army is in a trance

Their voices cannot stop now

They all begin to sing with

and their grumpiness disappear

and what ya know, just guess

whose voice we suddenly hear…..

OLD HIPPO!

Dear trusted hippo my big funny spirit

drops by to show off his big voice

and when Bloop hears this

he finally makes his choice.

We all laugh now and are happy

Millipede sits on Hippo’s tongue

and we all have a jolly good time

as we run, dance and sing

together, a very old rhyme…..

WHAT IS THIS!

I stop and see a multitude of laughing faces

of old friends from long, long ago

they lured me here to this place

with the big wide window.

I see far, I hear the drums!

GOING BACK
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The march is on, I am going back,

back to my kingdom, my world.

Going back, I am going back

I’ll ride the winds of change

until I am back.

I go wild, I grow strong.

All my spirits

are singing my song.

I am going back.

Earth gives my legs movement

my eyes open to see far.

There is a long forgotten kingdom

buried under sands of time.

As the winds of change begin to blow

I see my castle in a golden glow,

a sacred place I know…..

I’m going back,

I don’t need to pack

for what I have is mine and it is me,

oh, I’m going back

to the majestic land where I once lived

My little spirits join me and we dance together

leaving behind only more distance

as we head on to the portal.

I go wild, I grow strong,

we all now sing my song

as we march along

triumphantly on the pleasures

of going back

I walk strong, I run at times

but I never stop

voices cover me with velvet

I am not cold.

My soul echoes with me

Going back, I’m going back.

POND OF TEARS: SAD MEMORIES
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Over the waters

I heard the wind cry

Don’t let your love die.

(This child must not die)

There is no love for her

the heart is black and filled with hate

Turn around away from there

before it is too late

Make haste, run away

and conceal your feelings/

It will never be answered/

None will ever know the meaning.

I turned back to empty

and could not cry.

The wind then created a storm

that could not die.

It raged with sorrow

of a child’s love

and sadness started pouring

From the skies above.

Dawn Els (AUTHOR)

©COPYRIGHT DAWN ELS

More poems might be added to this post during time.

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