A Handful of Words, C.E. Vance [small books to read TXT] 📗

mist of tears, last goodbyes

Remember this child,

a beautiful innocence so mild

 

C.E.Vance

My Words

Thoughts I place upon the page,
a foreign soul belonging to me.
Presented view from the other side,
letters I form lets the seeker see.

Dwelling in reach - seeming so far,
hidden face in façade of stone.
From calm to tempest for all to hear,
emerges a voice unlike the known.

Spoken by one - but garnered for two,
inside the depths lies vision's sight.
Pretenses follow an expected path,
trails beyond whispers is what I write.

A handful of words are of my own,
the spell for an enchantment to dreams.
Each sharing speaks the realm of mind,
my surrounding world as it seems.

C.E.Vance

 

Night Songs

Haloed moon amid a starlit sky -
ascends above eve’s shadowy lands
With forging night comes chorused songs,
streaming through leafy timber stands

Chirps beneath shaded harbor rise,
in echoed unison the chatters swell
Tempo’s sauntered haunting tune,
erupts where nightly creatures dwell

On trickled waves - mirrored heaven gleams,
bright cratered orb crosses water and sky
Reflections touch crystalline fathom’s shores,
from shimmered shallows - lily's heirs reply

Sounds of rhythmic music fills the air,
wailed warbled chirps rise and fall
Cattails sway to the steady drone,
water adds its trickling beat to the call

Harmony scored along sloping banks,
lending voice to the tremolo choir
Orchestra plays throughout the night,
break of morn bids the players retire

Across the lake, shimmering curtains drawn,
stage takes bow - to resume before long
Haloed moon amid the starlit sky,
slowly descends to an ending song

C.E. Vance

Stolen Heart

Ferried away upon the heart you stole -
surrounded in an air of sun filled skies
Rises the spirit inside jubilant thoughts
flight to an inner Heaven - unseen by eyes

Sweet are the whispers to enlighten one's soul,
spoken in absence of an uttered word
In a dream belonging to other than night,
sincerity of a wish is the voice that's heard

A portrayal of love - blossoming with life,
bouquet held 'til the petal's final hours
Destinies shared for all remaining while,
dwelling together among the flowers

Vision delivered into waiting arms,
not just an image for a mind's caress
Being hard to describe beauty so real,
perfection comes without terms to express

Ferried away upon the heart you stole,
surrounded by the sun filled skies
Rise my spirit in jubilant thoughts,
Heaven is seen through my eyes

C.E.Vance

You

In evening's peaceful slumber -
I whisper softly to you
May I hold you tenderly -
the way I’ve been longing to

 

 

As dreams are unfolding -
your image draws near
If my nights were forever -
you would always be here

 

Hidden within the twilight -
are all my unspoken words
Would you be enchanted -
by words you haven’t heard

 

Could you ever love me -
the way I’m in love with you
Follow our dreams together -
watching all come true

 

If I could ever hold you -
the way I’ve been longing to
My dreams would be forever -
and my twilights so few

 

C.E.Vance

Winter Song

To melodious tunes in starry eyed dreams -
comes surrender to scores adrift on airy skies
Sparkling glint of reflections in the windswept view,
brings lulled wonder with music's delightful rise

Snowflakes dancing on breaths of winter's wail,
whirl to trailing notes that nature's fifers play
Icy crystals that twinkle with captured light,
gently sifts through trees and gathers in the ley

Layered in gleaming white, further than eyes can see,
symphony sweeps the scapes with its spangled sheen
Faces in the windows, transfixed by sights and sounds,
share their joyful whispers for the unfolding scene

 

Hearts readied to slip away in the cover of night
to conquer slops on polished rails, spurred by every thrill
Warmly dressed and out the door -  follows season's allure
laughter's bundle of wishes seeks contentment's fill

 

With running starts, off you go - riding memories for life,
breathless stance atop the hill, waiting turns to slide,
Set adrift on winter winds - playing another song,
sounds of children in their world where dreams reside

 

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To melodious tunes in starry eyed dreams-
comes surrender to scores adrift on airy skies
Sparkling glint of reflections in the windswept view,
brings lulled wonder with music's delightful rise

 

C.E.Vance

Willow in Lea

In cooling shade of bluebell's meadow,
secluded host to lone willow's weep
Perched songsters perform a feathered score,
from outstretched branches melodies sweep

 

In tenor chirp, sing the sure winged sparrows,
serenade peaks with their upward breasts
A bustling breeze  to blue silent bells,
prompts swayed dance for the musical guests

 

Sitting aloft in tinged backdrop of green,
swooping from sky to the willow in lea
Each kindred of flight alighting to limbs,
forms Mother Nature's choir in the tree

 

C.E.Vance

 

Whispers

Dancing on moons belonging to midnight’s suns,

spirits entwined  amid a star filled sky

In a realm of light reaching past celestial’s gate,

beyond earth’s heavens - twilight’s whispers speak

 

Hours that finds you in a well of endless depth,

voices send hush to your turmoil’s wilted sighs

In  forlorn wastelands where lost travelers roam,

threshold to an exit lies within summoned words

 

Ascension of whispers taking flight on wings,

from glory they rise to serve in Kingdom’s grace

Mists on airy billows hear each moment’s prayers -

words to Heaven delivered in voices of their own

 

Angels to bear all the tears that we cry,

beside us in stead giving comfort to plight

Created from essence surpassing space and time -

whispers in Heaven are always by your side

 

Dancing on moons that whisk past your eyes,

spirits entwined in the reaches of your mind

In a realm of light you touch celestial’s gate-

surrounded by endless heavens your whispers speak

 

C.E.Vance

Whispering Serenade