Sharing the Journey....

Stepping out together

With commitments and

Marriage vows as shiny

Our wedding rings.

The newness and the sparkle

There to be admired and

For others envied.

Life’s unknowns and potentials,

Reaching across a blank canvas

Yet to be infilled with experiences

And opportunities;

In time, the tapestry of richness matures

As evolving family responsibilities test

Challenges of flexibility and adaptability.

Life’s seasons of love draw onwards and

Anniversaries are collected as treasures;

Each year an affirmation of togetherness

While encouraging individual spirits,

Enhances and complements strengths

Blended and formed within the longevity

Of almost a lifetime of marriage;

A journey of memories shared along the way.

©Copyright Eileen T O’Neill 17/02/2016

Poets United Mid-Week Motif ~ Marriage~…

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Axis of Boredom....

Scratching at the same surfaces

With the endless repetition of

The same beat and funk,

Stuck in a groove; the same groove.

Rebranded and repackaged as new,

But still the same old, same old chatter.

Wringing out inane details with intensity,

As audiences wait to devour those truths

Chat show dramatics and revelations,

Hosted between the heavens and beyond.

Mundane living clamours for attention,

The rises and falls are exposed at will;

Breaking-news breaks interrupt boredom.

That there is nothing to report causes worry,

Perhaps an actual happening can be mentioned.

©Copyright Eileen T O’Neill 15/02/2016

Star Gazing....

Profiles raised far beyond this

Earth’s usual grounding,

Placed upon invisible pedestals

Out of reach to most mere mortals;

Many facades of the human form

Aspire to reach up to dizzy heights,

Encouraged by tomorrow’s promise

Of immediate recognition and fame.

Face after face of infamous celebrities

Adorn tatty covers with lives exposed,

Truths and lies falling from newsprint,

As today’s stars enter a brave new world.

Collections of unfashionable habits and ways

Are urged upon those with impressionable minds,

Who seek to replicate that which is of the moment.

This new reality exists on a factitious notion of

Materialism being paramount, to being anyone;

While removing the individuality we seek to keep.

Soulless faces following their misguided dreams,

Nothing more than tacky ornaments in glass cases.

©Copyright Eileen T O’Neill 10/02/2016

Poets United Mid-Week Motif ~ The Inanimate and The Non-Human

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Personal Space....

Alone within herself,

And by herself;

She sits in the darkness

She much prefers.

Drapes firmly closed on

The outside world.

It’s a sadness to visit and observe;

But in truth,

She is at peace and on her own.

Locked forever into this isolation

Without intrusion or chit-chat,

Her absence of mind has rested

All worries and woes as she waits….

©Copyright Eileen T O’Neill 08/02/2016

Self-Image....

Looking out at you,

From within myself;

Peep-holes to your world

A distance to our perspectives,

And between us.

A sheltered form

From where to engage;

To reach out,

To utter words,

To answer your call.

Identifiers alert me to respond,

From within myself.

Reflections are perceptions

Void of internal connections.

Merely a shadow of the external

Apparel, but a stranger to my soul.

With confidence, little by little

Disclosure aligns me to you.

Though there will always be

Elements enclosed,

Within the self-that’s me.

©Copyright Eileen T O’Neill 04/02/2016

Poets United Mid-Week Motif ~ Identity…

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