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Beguiled – A Collaboration

Eyes that smolder, drawing you in

the teasing smile like a sensual sin

she gazes through, lights your soul on fire

as your thoughts burn like a funeral pyre,

her skin so smooth, so silky light

and you want it so much, this lovely delight.

Her words capture you, a sweet southern drawl

on hands and knees you’d surely crawl

to touch this maidens soft pale skin

your fingers run down as you begin

to trace her back like a delicate dance

lost in the moment of this romance.

Beguiling words to quench your thirst

for lust and life she will come first

to weave her magic on a poor souls heart

you never want to be swept apart

this wild hearted woman with a wanton need

will claim your soul, on this she’ll feed

and take you to the dream you crave

for her you’d be her beckoned slave.

She is the master of such desire

a sultry mistress you’ll never tire

as she leads you to her chamber door,

Oh God, you think…I must have more.

~Kim of Peace, Love and Patchouli~

This poem is the continuation of a collaboration Kim of Peace, Love and Patchouli blog found at https://zipsrid.wordpress.com and I are working on. The idea may sound convoluted, but its a test of Inspiration and prompts. I Sent her the artwork and title for the poem Deliberate, found below, and she had to come up with the verse. Then, she sent me the beautiful image above and the title for the next poem which I had to write (Clandestine). Round and round we go (until we get bored or find a perfect stopping point, whichever comes first!) If you haven’t read her Beautiful poetry before, I strongly recommend visiting her blog, filled with the most lyrical phrases, delicate verses, profound notions wrapped in ethereal prose and lovely photography and artwork. This is what drew me in when I first met Zippy, as I call her (derived from the Infinite Zip screen name she uses) and what keeps me coming back for more and more and more. I hope you enjoy our extended collaboration. More to follow, week to week, as we continue to test and inspire each other. Fine our previous poems below…

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Awake amidst the Morning’s shimmer,

Glimmer Smiling upon your Skin,

Begin the day with Love Beguiling,

Smiling to know the quandary we’re in!

Beyond the Whispers, Silent as Prose,

Rose Red Morning lifts her Gaze,

Haze of Passion Softly Singing,

Bringing Mischief to these weary Days!

Oh My Love, Before you Leave me,

Be my All one Moment More,

Implore from me my Heart’s Desire,

Fire Kissing a Boundless Shore!

Clandestine Love, Immortal Treasure,

Amidst stolen Moments of Exquisite Pleasure!

~Morgan~

You come to me

Deliberate and gentle

In my weakest moment

You gather me close

Skin touching skin

Please, let us begin.

Passion fills the air around

Touch me now,

Don’t let me down

I am filled

My cup overflowing

You are all I desire,

With you my soul is on fire

As we are love inspiring

Take me now,

One more time.

~Kim of Peace, Love and Patchouli~

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Beautiful Original Artwork by: talantbek chekirov, Frank Bernard & Mark Spain

Filed under: Collaborations, Poetry Tagged: BnV, BooknVolume, Desire, Dreams, Longing, Love, Night, passion, poetry, relationships, Romance, ~Morgan~

In The Lime Light – Brenda Davis Harsham/ Friendly Fairy Tales Blog

Please permit me the privilege of presenting the pleasing and positively pleasant Brenda Davis Harsham of Friendly Fairy Tales Blog found here: http://friendlyfairytales.com . Its the fairy magic that brings out the alliterations in me, but its Brenda that brings the smiles! Her glorious gardens for gazing, her prolific pleasing prose, the fanciful friendly fairies fluttering freely, and the sprinkling of softly spoken sagacity that brings me back to her beauteous blog again and again (and again and again!). When Brenda agreed to share her smiles and some secrets in this weeks In The Lime Light, I knew I would Love hearing what she had to share and I was in no way disappointed by her answers. Read on and enjoy her vim and verm, her wit and wisdom for yourselves ;)

About Your Blog:

Tell us about your Blog.

Friendly Fairy Tales is a place of magic where stories are born from the broth of words, stirred by imagination, stripped down to the bones. Poetry, photography and fairy tales celebrate nature and all the possibilities it sparks in our minds.

What Inspires you and Sparks your Imagination?

Nature, literature, song and people give me constant inspiration. Translating that inspiration into stories is the work of a lifetime.

Your blog boasts Poetry as well as Photography, do you have a favourite?

I’m not sure if you mean do I prefer poetry above photography or the converse OR if you mean do I have a favorite poem or photograph. I prefer the magic that happens when poetry springs from a photograph, bringing with it the memories of that moment in my life. I can’t pick a favorite poem or photograph. That would be like picking a favorite child, and I would never try to do that. They are all memories and songs of my heart.

Do you have any upcoming events or projects, books, promotions, giveaways?

I am sadly lacking any of those. What a slacker I am!! I am entertaining my children to the summer of their dreams (I hope), and burnishing story ideas whenever I have the chance. And I can’t help taking new pictures and writing new poems, because that is like breathing to me.

About YOU:

I was a sad little girl for so many reasons, but I had an epiphany in my early twenties that the secret of being happy was to declare that it was so. And so I have endeavored to do that, with more assurance and authority ever since, and dang if it hasn’t worked!

Brenda’s Bio:

A lifetime of nature observation collided with my love of fairy tales, giving birth to my blog. I do extensive research and use true stories about animal behavior in my writing. I’ve been published, and my writing has won hundreds of awards. I’m hard at work on a multitude of children’s book manuscripts. I hope to have one traditionally published soon. In addition, I’m a wife, a mom of three imaginative kids and a survivor.

Describe yourself in Five Words.

Phoenix reborn reclaiming happiness deliberately.

Tell us about something from your childhood that sparked the creativity bug inside you.

I’ve always had my own inner world, with a wise voice that helped me keep my balance in a rocky world. That inner voice taught me that telling myself stories was more fun than replaying disappointments and mistakes in a hyper critical way. Being a perfectionist is no picnic. Get off that train if you suffer from the same impossible expectations that I did. Unless you’re writing, in which case, edit, edit, edit. LOL

If you could go anywhere, do anything, regardless of expense, describe your Perfect Day.

I would have a tea party with my kids and all our friends in the Musee d’Orsay, right in full view of the Van Gogh collection, and not a drop of food would cling to my frock and not a bit of damage would happen to the art. We would then go paint plein air in Monet’s garden. Then we would take a helicopter to Provence, where we would lie on lounge chairs in a field of lavender, the fragrance surrounding us as we gaze at the milky way, in all its glory. Not a single bug would impinge on our moments of perfection. Then we would all teleport home to sleep in our own beds. (Oh I want to go along with you! Sounds Absolutely Magical!)

If you could invite Five People (from the past or present) to a dinner party, who would you invite and why?

Oh, my, such scope for the imagination. I’m quite overwhelmed. Frida Kahlo, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Ogden Nash, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain. Oh, I can’t choose, I can’t!

What makes Life Worth Living?

Art, Family, Love, imagination, Faith, joy, Dreams, Nature. I want it all!

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SEE I told you it would be an Entirely Enjoyable Experience :)

Thank You Brenda for Sharing your insights with us. Im so Glad you agreed to be In The Lime Light!

~Morgan~

Filed under: Your Beautiful Life Tagged: Authors, BnV, BooknVolume, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, In The Lime Light, Inspiration, Interviews, Magic, Nature, Writers, ~Morgan~

Friday Fantasy – Broad Kingdom

Broad, Aspiring Kingdom; long Shaken,

Streaming with Translucent Love,

Kiss my Dreaming mind and Waken

All things Magical from Your Heights Above.

As I stare in the Sullen Twilight

Of our Grasping, Thirsty world,

Your Splendor, All Entrancing Sight,

Lost from this Reality, by Tempests Hurled

Beyond the Grasp of Limited Dreaming,

Flourishing now in Memory, Alone,

Radiant Beauty Ever Streaming,

From the Sweetest Vision Ever Shone.

Lost in Time You Stand and Wait,

Glistening in the Primordial Hush,

For us to Turn from our Chosen Fate,

Throw Off the Chains of Malignant Rush

To Dance in your Beauteous Realm once More,

Calamity and Greed O’re turned, at last;

To Rest upon Your Sweet, Fertile Shore,

Dreaming Sweetly while Gentle Clasped.

~Morgan~

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Beautiful Original Artwork by: Goran Josic

Filed under: Friday Fantasy, Poetry Tagged: BnV, BooknVolume, Dreams, Fairy Realm, Fantasy, Light, Memory, Mythical Kingdom, Nature, Poem, poetry, Twilight, ~Morgan~

Friday Fantasy – Behind the Oak Tree

Behind the Oak tree

Where None Can See

Live the Pixies,

One, Two Three.

You Cannot See Them

They Hide until Night,

Then They Emerge

To Dance in Moonlight.

Behind the Oak Tree

As you Blithely Walk By,

Pixies are Hiding,

Pause and hear their Soft Sigh.

One Pixie, Two Pixie,

Flitting on the Wing,

Behind the Old Oak Tree

Listen as they Sing!

Ladders lead up

Stairwells lead down

Though it Matters little,

As they Fly all Around!

Behind the Oak Tree

Where None Dare Look

Live the Pixies,

Like in a Fairytale Book.

~Morgan~

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Beautiful Image found on Facebook at: Fairies Dragons And Other Mythological Creatures. Credit Acknowledged to the Original Artist. Thank You!

Filed under: Friday Fantasy, Poetry Tagged: BnV, BooknVolume, creative writing, Fairy Realm, Fantasy, Magic, Mythical Kindgom, photography, Pixies, Poem, poetry, ~Morgan~

Window To The Soul

When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal.

I see a Living Being.

I see a Friend.

I feel a Soul.

-A.D. Williams~

Loving Spirit

Reaching for Mine,

Speak through Their Silence,

Whisper Empathy, Divine;

Touch my Heart

With a Mighty Love,

Trascending and Mending,

Like Your Love from Above.

~Morgan~

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Beautiful Original Artwork by: Michael Pape

Filed under: Musings on Heaven, Poetry Tagged: BnV, BooknVolume, compassion, Empathy, Harmony, Love, Nature, Poem, poetry, relationships, spirituality, ~Morgan~

Wordless Wednesday – Elatissiumus

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~Morgan~

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Beautiful Photographs found on Pinterest. Credit Acknowledged to the original Photographers. Thank You

Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: Amazing Photography, Beautiful Earth, Beautiful Photography, Beauty, BnV, BooknVolume, Colour, Earth Pics, Light, Nature, photography, Yellow, ~Morgan~

Wordless Wednesday – Magnificentia

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~Morgan~

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Beautiful Photographs found on Pinterest. Credit Acknowledged to the original Photographers. Thank You

Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: Amazing Photography, Beautiful Earth, Beautiful Photography, Beauty, BnV, BooknVolume, Colour, Earth Pics, Light, Nature, photography, Yellow, ~Morgan~

Wordless Wednesday – Glorioso

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~Morgan~

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Beautiful Photographs found on Pinterest. Credit Acknowledged to the original Photographers. Thank You

Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: Amazing Photography, Beautiful Earth, Beautiful Photographs, Beauty, BnV, BooknVolume, Earth Pics, Light, Nature, photography, ~Morgan~

Weep Not For Me

Weep Not for me,

When Darkness Falls I Shall be free,

Free to Dance in the Painted Night,

Free to Caress the Sky with Light,

Touching Dreams with my Softest Smile,

Intoxicated by this Enchanting Guile,

Weep Not for this Long Hour of Sleep,

Waiting, Silent, with the Secrets I Keep,

As the Heaven’s are Endlessly Turning

And the Seas I ride are Tempestuously churning,

Weep Not for Me,

For When Darkness Falls I Shall be Free.

~Morgan~

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Beautiful Original Artwork by: Cindy Grundsten

Filed under: Poetry Tagged: BnV, BooknVolume, Dreams, Enchantment, Heavens, Moonlight, Nature, Night, Poem, poetry, Secrets, Stars, ~Morgan~

Clandestine- A Collaboration

Awake amidst the Morning’s shimmer,

Glimmer Smiling upon your Skin,

Begin the day with Love Beguiling,

Smiling to know the quandary we’re in!

Beyond the Whispers, Silent as Prose,

Rose Red Morning lifts her Gaze,

Haze of Passion Softly Singing,

Bringing Mischief to these weary Days!

Oh My Love, Before you Leave me,

Be my All one Moment More,

Implore from me my Heart’s Desire,

Fire Kissing a Boundless Shore!

Clandestine Love, Immortal Treasure,

Amidst stolen Moments of Exquisite Pleasure!

This poem is the continuation of a collaboration Kim of Peace, Love and Patchouli blog found at https://zipsrid.wordpress.com and I are working on. The idea may sound convoluted, but its a test of Inspiration and prompts. I Sent her the artwork and title for the poem Deliberate, found below, and she had to come up with the verse. Then, she sent me the beautiful image above and the title for the next poem which I had to write (Clandestine). Round and round we go (until we get bored or find a perfect stopping point, whichever comes first!) If you haven’t read her Beautiful poetry before, I strongly recommend visiting her blog, filled with the most lyrical phrases, delicate verses, profound notions wrapped in ethereal prose and lovely photography and artwork. This is what drew me in when I first met Zippy, as I call her (derived from the Infinite Zip screen name she uses) and what keeps me coming back for more and more and more. I hope you enjoy our extended collaboration. More to follow, week to week, as we continue to test and inspire each other.

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You come to me

Deliberate and gentle

In my weakest moment

You gather me close

Skin touching skin

Please, let us begin.

Passion fills the air around

Touch me now,

Don’t let me down

I am filled

My cup overflowing

You are all I desire,

With you my soul is on fire

As we are love inspiring

Take me now,

One more time.

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~Morgan & Kim ~

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Beautiful Original Artwork by: talantbek chekirov

Filed under: Collaborations, Poetry Tagged: BnV, BooknVolume, Desire, Inspiration, Love, Ocean's Shore, passion, Poem, poetry, relationships, Romance, ~Morgan~