English/Czech - Red in Gray and Black/Rudá v šedém a černém

As promised to my Czech family and friends, today's post is in English and Czech.  Poems inspired by the abstract art of Ivan Pavlíček.

Pro všechny moje české přátelé - byla bych moc ráda kdyby jste nechali komentář.

Red in Gray and Black

Original Artwork © Ivan Pavlíček

My flaming passion

Smeared by absence

Blurred in gray and black

Longing – aching

To once again burn

Brightly in the

Presence of your red

Hot desire

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 9/18/12 cz 5:45pm

Rudá v šedém a černém

Má vášeň plamenná

nepřítomností rozmazaná

Rozostřená v šedém a černém stesku
Bolestně touží hořet zase jasně

v přítomnosti tvé žhavě rudé touhy

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2012

Shadows on the Carpet - Section 2 - Visions

Section 2 of "Shadows on the Carpet" is titled 'Visions'.  With approximately 18 poems, this section will contain mostly social/political commentary poems.  The first poem in the section is 'Visions'.

Visions

Photo art by AVR to match poem

From dreams she

Awakens

Drenched in sweat

Truth, love and

Passion not

Sufficient

At daybreak

The hue is

Indigo

At midnight

The music

Trash metal

 

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2009

Memorial Day - Solace in Sorrow

I had started to write this poem but wasn't able to finish it until a frat sister (who I did not know personally) was murdered.  I finished the poem and sent it to her family with my condolences.  I then recorded it on AcidPlanet (with some small changes) and JTL (John Carter) added his music and mixed it for Memorial Day. Click on the link to listen to it.

Solace in Sorrow

Memorial Day – With Sorrow

Embrace the pain of loss

It is worthy of our grief

Find solace in words of comfort

And never let go of hope

Allow tears of healing to wash over us

Expressions of sympathy to carry us

Let us hold tightly to our faith

Let it sustain us

Cradle the cherished memories

They are ours to celebrate

Full and vibrant lives

Whose spirits now reside

In the presence of their creator

Having fulfilled their calling

And whose love will continue

To live in our hearts until

We, too, fulfill our destinies

And reunite with them in joy

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2007

The T. Collection - Crossroads

Sharing another poem from the T. Collection - A Retrospective - this poem starts the series even though it was not written first.  I wrote the poems as they came to me and then rearranged them to flow better.

CROSSROADS

There we were

two young ‘children’

making adult

decisions that

affected us

forever

You went off to war

I gave love for a lie

at crossroads

that would bring

us together

in the future

Two wounded

adults seeking

sanity

in each other

as new crossroads

tore us apart

Just paying

the price of

living life

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2006