This morning sings between dreams and deeds,
lavender windows slide slowly open,
third eyes sense soothing souls,
as lilac divinity brings peace,
to follow one spiritual path.
Together we double-stitched cloths of life,
spinning wheels in patterns of creation.
Our woven dreams of hope and trust,
spread a silken quilt over our hearts,
searching wisdom amid old doubts, new fears,
to weave the cloth of our future.
Dawn sews her soft, violet tresses of faith
into our life’s loom.
Our love grows eternally, but
still uncertain, I wander hesitatingly,
hastening to find you – frantic rush, then –
I worry no more, for –
standing demure, without a care,
quietly, you wait for me.
I know now, we will always share
our finished garment of happiness, where
we feel love’s comfort with life ahead,
in field’s inamoratas of indigo thread.
Author notes
My love, it is two hundred years since I wrote this poem for you. How silly I was to doubt, even for a moment….and you waited for me in your beautiful gown. I was so lucky, my sweet, and then we began our time together…I am always yours…forever.
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I find a dilemma leaving the reader too little information, or patronising with too much information to spoil the poem; I want to show, not tell. Here goes:
Indigo, the colour of the third eye chakra, is the colour of Ajna [my morning dawn], wisdom of intuitive thinking. It talks in soul language and gives entrance to the causal world where our future is based on our past…karma.
Our love, in this poem, is our future sprung from our past, as in the Third Eye Chakra. This is inextricably mixed with the Heart Chakra function, which is that of love. This is implied in the poem.
We feel the two emotions working together on one spiritual path, stitching a garment of love, similar to the pictured, indigo dress my love wore, as she waited for me all those years ago.
ART: R S Adams Jr
A contest entry
- Contest NO GREENS - ROUND FOUR - INVITATION ONLY by Pamela A Lamppa.
7000 points, ended April 13, 2008, 10 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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There's something Buddhist ...
and something Hindu and something American Indian about this. It's quite a compelling write.
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"our finished garment of happiness" - a stable, longlasting relationship meant to last and the love is still there. Nice imagery and an expression of your talent for love poetry.
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This is such a beautifully soft love poem.
Garments stitched with indigo thread, spreading and enveloping all. Beyond mortal years into eternity where souls know complete love.
Thank you for your entry. Best of luck in the judging. ~Pamela
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Another wonderful take on Ajna : I like how you dwelled within the spiritual Knowledge of this sixth chakra the two emotions brought beauty to your poem.
Love and LIght
Frozentearz -
beautifully written and i loved the metphor you chose with weaving threads of colorful dreams on a path that lay before them. best of luck in the contest.
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You have woven your love story with delicate threads. I am learning so much about this color with the various poems. Good luck in this contest. Peace, Liz
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RS,
This is absolutely positively so beautiful. Filled with so much love. Your metaphors are many and create such vivid imagery for my mind's eye to behold. I love the author notes also. They brought the tears of joy streaming down my cheeks. Thank you for sharing this treasure with all of us. I know I am richer for having read it. Best wishes in this round. Love and God bless, Joyce 
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I found the relevance of dawn, morning,
to new beginnings that have emerged from
the old...just wonderful. Emotions and this
colour certainly do blend well. And the
notes you provide allow the reader to pull
even more from the verse. Blue
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This is a beautiful poem. I especially like the extended metaphor. Embedded between the lines you find music and the heart of a romantic--well-written and exquisite!
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the loom - good imagery to use within a poem, i did briefly in one but not as extensively as you have here. a soft and gentle piece here, showing smiles of the heart and a calming spiritual effect too intowoven
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