Lonely Bird

Little lonely bird

Keeps searching through the fog

Wings tired

Little heart weary

She looks for home

Wanting to know what it feels like

Hoping against hope

For guidance

But all she finds is an empty nest

So she looks to the sky

For answers

Takes another deep breath

In readiness

To search some more

Because she is not ready

To surrender to the coldness embracing her

Little lonely bird

Simply won't stop believing

Home is out there

Waiting

Somewhere

(c) Dianne Traynor  10 July 2013

Prisoner of Love

Some loves will surprise you

Unexpectedly they become a part of you

And you know not why

You will either embrace it

Or pride will keep you from it

And you know not why

Telling yourself all the reasons you should forget

Waking up and feeling him, missing him

And you know not why

Accepting perceived faults

Breathing becoming deeper as you think of him

And you know not why

Some loves are simply part of you

He was with you before you met

Which is why, you know not why

A prisoner of your heart

Others will try to set you free

But it is only he who holds the key

And you know not why

(c) Dianne Traynor  7 April 2013

Oh Love, dear Love

Oh Love, dear Love

I was so young

when we first met

but now, so many years later

I have to ask

Was it really you?

Oh Love, dear Love

you danced with me

in my twenties

but the music stopped

and the lights dimmed

Are you always so fleeting?

Oh Love, dear Love

you placed a ring upon my finger

in my thirties

gave me the gift of life

in a beautiful girl

I see so much of you in her

Oh Love, dear Love

Why did I mistake you

in my forties

for only imposters

Yet now I am wiser

I find you daily within myself

Oh Love, dear Love

you are indeed elusive

within another

What makes you come and go?

Only a traveller in my life

it seems

Oh Love, dear Love

Who are you

that I seek?

Will you ever step from the shadows

into the light of my moon

and walk into eternity with me?

Oh Love, dear Love

no matter how many times

I mistake you for another

I will continue to feel your strength

to trust and to believe

that you are coming home

(c) Dianne Traynor 10 January 2013

Mother Nature

As I gaze upon the water

and I wonder what comes next

I think that life is not so bad

compared to many, it would be the best

Troubles come a plenty,

sometimes mounting way too high;

overwhelmed with disappointment and frustration,

exhausted and too tired to even cry

It is so easy for us to forget

the untold blessings at our side;

caught up in daily problems

we feel we're drowning in the devil's tide

Now when this happens, please take the time

to wander back to Mother's arms,

surrender to her beauty and her grace,

absorb her loving charm

She will never leave you

and she will never judge;

she will only ever welcome you,

her steadfast loyalty will never budge

And, if you let her, she will show you the way ...

to truth

to belief

to love ...

and that will be enough

(c) Dianne Traynor  24 December 2012

Broken Dreams

I love you,

But you fancy her;

She wants him,

It’s one big bleurg…

of mess

You date me,

I think its love;

I break his heart,

And so begins the tug…

of war

Playing a game

of strategy and conquest,

is ego the victor?

Broken dreams …

left by the side of the road

© Dianne Traynor 20 May 2012