Image-ine: Ylenia Mino

6 Comments 20 April 2012

Delicato come un fiore… Colorato come la gioia… Profumato come la primavera… il canto dell’usignolo accompagna il profumo della vita… L’amore è il profumo della vita*

No Tear Yet Blooms

Winter’s lifeline cut,
spring lets loose

its unseen shaman.
This Philomela, her body

sun-kissed and delicate
of bone, conjures no night

-colored song to rob
the joy of a morning long

in reverie. No tear yet blooms
in the nightingale’s eye.

Love distills her fragrance
only when the petals fall.

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*Italian translation: Delicate like a flower…Colored like joy…Fragrant like Spring…the song of the nightingale is the fragrance of life…The fragrance of life is Love

Painting and Italian post by Ylenia Mino. English poem by Maureen Doallas. Visit Ylenia Mino on Facebook and Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper

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6 Comments so far

hurtnpoet says:

April 20, 2012 at 8:09 am

Poetry is like painting a picture…..

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L. L. Barkat says:

April 20, 2012 at 8:15 am

And maybe painting a picture is like penning a poem?

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Maureen Doallas says:

April 20, 2012 at 9:29 am

Thank you for allowing me to contribute a response to Ylenia’s painting.

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L. L. Barkat says:

April 20, 2012 at 9:51 am

Thank *you* for responding, Maureen.

I loved this especially….

“This Philomela, her body

sun-kissed and delicate
of bone”

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Monica Sharman says:

April 20, 2012 at 11:21 am

“sun-kissed and delicate
of bone”
was my favorite part, too.

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Simply Darlene says:

April 23, 2012 at 3:38 pm

yowzer, this just bursts with spring

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