If I Could Give You My Heart ©2021 Louise Gallagher If I could I would give you my words plump and full of promises dancing in the ecstasy of never having to leave you without words If I could I would paint you the sunrise bold and fiery colours streaking across the sky full of morning delight threaded with gold melting like butter upon a piece of warm buttered toast If I could I would sing you a song of sunset full of sun-bathed mountains stretched out across the horizon like a dragon sleeping at the edge of the world where sky tumbles into the sea and the moon rises high and pulls the night up into a sky full of stars falling like snow melting your dreams awake If I could give you my heart would you listen deep to the beat of its silence echoing throughout the vastness of time wooing your fear of falling asleep like a lullaby spun into a cradle of love that can never break If I could give you my heart would you listen deep?
Yesterday, I entered my studio without any clear idea of what I wanted/needed to create or without having heard what the muse was whispering into creation.
I opened my art journal to a blank page. Threw down some colour and text and lines. And took a breath.
A deep one.
I closed my eyes, let my conscious mind sink down, down, into the crucible of my belly, into the font of where creativity rises up to inspire, cajole, exhort me into being wildly, joyfully present to all that is present where ever I’m at.
And that’s when I felt the murmurings.
Of words. Of song. Of flowers and trees and birds and life flowing.
I started to draw and paint and when I was finished, she appeared.
I told C.C. “She’s my Frida Kahlo meets Marie Antoinette.” He laughed and asked, “Where’s the cake?”
“Her cake is the words she spins into stories the flowers breathe in,” I replied. (I might even have been a little flippant. But the muse didn’t care…)
And thus, the words appeared… Her words grew into the stories flowers told to chase away grey skies and cloudy days.
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This morning, when I sat down at my desk, I didn’t know what I was going to write.
I closed my eyes, took in a breath and watched it sink with my conscious mind floating on air down, down, down into the crucible of my belly. The busy places in my heart grew still. The stuck places melted… and that’s when I felt the murmurings.
Of words dancing and sunrises melting and hearts listening deeply and breaking open to love.
And the words guided my heart into creative expression.
Namaste
Louise, this is absolutely beautiful! I was inspired to immediately pick up my guitar and melody flowed from me. I recorded it on my phone, but I need to become more acquainted with the rhythms of your poem so that I may do each phrase justice. Too bad my life just got super busy. Maybe Next week I can return to this work of wonder.
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Ooooohhhhhhh Ian!!!! Thank you!!! That is about the best gift I could ever receive! Can’t wait to hear what you create. Yummy!!!!
Nice thing is… the muse is always willing to wait for us to get ‘unbusy’. 🙂 ❤
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Really quite wonderful – the art and poem unique but also related.
Parts that jumped out for me..
‘plump and full of
promises’
‘ wooing your fear’
And the stanza’ …If I could
I would sing you a song of sunset
full of sun-bathed mountains’
Wow to the rest.
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Thank you Stella!
Don’t you just love it when the words write themselves out and then sing to other hearts?
I am grateful for your words. ❤
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So beautiful this touched me
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Thank you Joanne. It feels like such a beautiful gift of reciprocity when my words touch another’s heart.
Much gratitude my friend. ❤
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Love it!!!
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Thank you! ❤
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Lovely
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Thanks my friend. ❤
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🙂
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so many beautiful phrases!
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Just beautiful in every way.
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AMEN to all of the above. Wonderful art, wonderful words – but I like the creative painting best of all – it’s all there. And we can add our own wonders too, there is space enough.
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Thank you my dear friend. You make me smile. ❤
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