This is a pic Debbie's parents took.

Care to use it as a prompt?
Please take some time with this one as it deserves the respect and grace it radiates..
Freeverse or prose...all welcome to be inspired or not.

This was wrote to me from a true friend and I wanted to share.



Ode to My Angel Debbie

Fire in the sky
Evil spirits brewing mischief
A deathly stillness descends
Atop the sentinel corner of the tower
Azure, gold, burnt sienna bursting
Into strange shapes and twists across the heavens
Where angels fear to tread
Yet such eerie delight
A vision blinding with its aching beauty

-Gem

Alone, i stand in the shifting of days
A remnant of passing times and lore.
Your fiery shades of purple haze
Come nigh to entice me once more.

Join my silent soliloquey, my friend
Let the sun set upon our wizened walls.
Tomorrow shall come when the night ends,
And I remain as you journey once more.

Raspberry dimples
Cain husks ablaze
Black trodden cotton
Here the serpent lays

I stand alone.
Outside our castle.
Where once you called me your queen.
I called you my king, beloved.

On the roof
as the stars witnessed
our romance
the earth could have moved
and we would not have known.
We loved like a dream
in the secluded bowers,
our private world not seen.
In our thousand years together
we found life
and death,
what it is to be captive
and to be free.
You honored me,
I honored you

I cut loose the torments,
the scarlet ribbons binding me
the fiery lace bandeau
is ripped from me.

Still, I am bound to you,

Now I stand alone.
Tears
my heart, my king.
To remember you
is two eyes striking
the world on fire,
then closing slowly
vacant, empty.

Your comet has been,
I caught the tail.

brilliant.

Thanks Debbie.
I adored the one written for you. So much imagery packed into those lines....

thats nice enough to frame and put on a wall
very nice shot

That's such a nice poem, ladywind. I wish I was a poet like that.

Thank you Tulip.
You are a poet

I am sure many have done so....

It was in relation to the photo, not about me or for me, I don't think, just for this thread and to share.

TommyBoy, I would love to see your poetic take on Debbie's photo. Dazzle us!

Ode means that someone thinks highly of you, Debbie, no matter what inspired them to write the poem.

Thanks