Just Another Day

While I am waiting for approval for the 'Shadows on the Carpet II' book cover & manuscript, I will share one of the poems from the Fallen section including a link to the audio version.

Just Another Day audio 

JUST ANOTHER DAY

Drawing by AVR

Deeply distraught

Her soul in distress

She shares herself with

Him in as many

Ways as possible

Within time constraints

Of parameters

Chosen by them both

She realizes

The futility

Because it is not

Enough and she knows

It cannot be any

Other way - forced

By circumstances

Beyond her control

As he - oblivious

Unknowingly sticks

Daggers into her

Heart and twists them

© Alice Vedral Rivera  - 2006

English/Czech - Purification/Očištění

The 5th and last ekphrastic poem in the series of poems inspired by the abstract art of Ivan Pavlíček:

Purification

original art by Ivan Pavlíček

Flames engulf

Our hearts in

Blazing bright

Red intense

Crimson shades

Of scarlet

Desire

The fire

Burns and turns

Scar tissue

Into hot

Embers of

Pure love mixed

With passion

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 1/24/2013   2:00pm

Poslední  v sérii ekfrastických básní inspirovaných abstraktní malbou Ivana Pavlíčka:

Očištění

Plameny zachvátí

naše srdce ve zářícím ohni

ostře červené tóny karmínové

a šarlatové touhy

Oheň pálí

a mění naše jizvy

v žhavý uhel uhnětený 
z čisté lásky a vášně

© Alice Vedral Rivera

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