Hidden Muse ∞

✨️ Dusk lends the pines a cloak silent smoke ∞ @only8words #only8words

the dancers fade and the masks stay✨️ what waits inside ∞ theatrical stars on ballroom ceilings turn prism painted faces made to burn orchestral rosin dusts the violin the waltz that lets the masks begin carved smiles curtsy by with hollow eyes and drift between the chandelier skies the clock unspools its glassy chime a coin of silver spent on time out sweeps the midnight masquerade herkimer spheres dim as dancers fade mystique lifts her lace veil wide and no one wears what waits inside ∞ @bionicanadian @LadyDeCrescent @OurPoetryX

✨️ the canvas wakes with a pigment thirst and drinks a struck match until it bursts a swirling design uncoils its spine then threads a wick through every line the seams of the linen come unhinged as vermilion bleeds where the dark was singed ∞ @bionicanadian @OurPoetryX

Winter signs its work in frost ✨️ Winter's Design ∞ Beneath a moon of opal artisan snowflakes gleam Like sterling lace embroidered on the hem of a dream A midnight phantom chill drifts through the crystal air And leaves frozen quartz stars upon the branches bare Each flake carved and etched in winter's design As though an unseen hand had traced its filigree so fine ∞ @bionicanadian @dearloveletters

✨️ Curling cobwebs knotted sleep Darkness stitched nightmares deep ∞ @only8words #only8words

✨ some patterns only appear when reality wrinkles Watermark ∞ a silhouette dances against twilight skies his edges dissolving before her eyes she desires dreams that pour into dreams forbidden science wakes two watermarks in selenite streams then a wrinkle in sleep pleats the evening through mist the blueprint unfurls in saffron and amethyst morning takes the window and leaves one argent crease where enigmas of wonder neither answer nor cease ∞ @bionicanadian @OurPoetryX @dearloveletters

✨️ Feather flowers weave through heat awaiting shade where shadows meet ∞ @10wordspoet

✨️ dreading defeats i still rise beneath open skies ∞ @only8words

✨️ conversation dissolves beneath the chime sudden silence magnifies its time a lone pendulum keeps cutting through the air each swing arrives before I know it's there ∞ @MicroPsych0

✨️ golden essence held in daffodil scent lingers past petals bent ∞ @10wordspoet #10wordspoet

✨️ cosy cavern gathers faint sound echoes deepen underground ∞ @only8words #only8words

✨️ collecting cobbles paving stone creeping thyme spreads overgrown ∞ @only8words #only8words

Perhaps only the shape ever disappears✨️ The Shape It Wore ∞ the river lifts its weight to sun and climbs the sky till day is done it leaves the earth without a sound and rises where it can't be found it meets a thousand more unseen all drifting toward the in-between together now they wear one face a cloud that holds no single place then falls as rain to touch a seed and springs to life as what we need it travels on through blood and breath one drop mistaking that for death it was not born it did not end it only changed and came again it was not held by wave or vein still water neither loss nor gain ∞

✨️ the old light dims drifting mist under a cloud conceals the skies yet here still lit a promise of fire unseen met now by my eyes ∞ @MicroPsych0 @bionicanadian @OurPoetryX @dearloveletters

Some places remember those who notice ✨ Copse of Quiet ∞ A copse of quiet formed a leaflit dome where noon light led me walking home Birch trunks turned to luminous moonstone Redbud blossoms burned untouched alone woodland flowers curled beneath the leaves tucked in shadow where the warm air weaves ethereal foliage swayed in grace a verdant hush of scent through secret place such unearthly beauty locked away revealed to eyes that pause to stay blossoms drift and settle on my skin while something ancient wakes within ∞ @bionicanadian @SymphUnchained @OurPoetryX @dearloveletters

✨️petals fade across the years stealthy seasons collect our tears ∞ @10wordspoet #10wordspoet

some dreams never end when you wake✨ Seams of Stillness ∞ within this quiet dreamscape drifts gardening zen where moonlight sifts two calm koi tangled in your dreams yet dark and pale first find their seams an ancient bonsai bends but stays while jade moss thickens through slow days still souls entwined in silence keep smooth stones that hold the secrets deep the ripples soft as breath let go our resting hearts together flow ∞ @bionicanadian @FoxProse @SymphUnchained

where forgotten colors remember themselves ✨ Beneath the Varnish ∞ Beneath the varnish one true line still waits for years of light to shine A single smudge the breath of dust and softened wood and quiet must The gesso's grain yet holds its own before the final coat was known A close enclosure warm with wax and marked by fine uneven cracks A memory of autumn stays and scents the amber-tinted glaze Until the glow completes its climb and colors surface kept by time ∞ @bionicanadian @vssmagic @SymphUnchained

where light remembers its reflection✨ Halos and Hue ∞ halos held by strings above the field two sunflowers wait to be revealed Sunbright opens gold against the blue Moonshadow keeps a paler hue a river of light unwinds the haze disoriented lost inside the gaze hearts as familiars find their place until the halves of one embrace ∞ @dearloveletters @bionicanadian @FoxProse @SymphUnchained

✨️ Fragrant Cloud rose blushes true scent time could not undo ∞ @10wordspoet #10wordspoet