This week’s challenge is a photo prompt. from photographer, Terri Webster Schrandt, from secondwindleisure.com to share her photos with us for inspiration. Terri runs a weekly photo challenge called Sunday Stills. Check it out HERE.
Terri says: “This is a filtered version of a rose I photographed at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland.”
I imagined an artist painting a life portrait of his love.
Here are my Etheree poems:
Love Unchained❤️
Love
© M J MALLON
Unchained
Heartstrings play
Captured verses
Loose petals scatter
My brush strokes velveteen
On your desirable skin!
My breath hitches with excitement
Your hair loosens, and your smile escapes,
You laugh so hard that each rose tumbles free…
Painting Your Beauty With Rose Petals 🌹
A bouquet of a dozen blooms arrive
© M J MALLON
As lipstick red as each dewy kiss
My rapt caresses make you smile
With trembling hands I begin
To paint your dear beauty
With red rose petals
I’m cherishing
Such naked
Sweetest
Love
Latest Release Details:
Blurb
Do What You Love Fragility of Your Flame Poems, Photography & Flash Fiction is a personal poetry collection celebrating how the fates may have a part in all that we do.
With special poems and short reflective moments inspired by family, flowers and nature, love, scrumptious morsels, places I’ve visited, lived and intend to live in, the friendships and hopes I have for the future.
The overarching theme is to live a life well lived… And to do what you love.
float along with me
create clouds of sweetest joy
to do what you love
hold fate’s hand as we venture
near and far on life’s journey(EXCERPT DO WHAT YOU LOVE © M J MALLON)
Buy Links Do What You Love:
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BKLC9DYY/
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/What-You-love-Fragility-Photography-ebook/dp/B0BKLC9DYY/
Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/What-You-love-Fragility-Photography-ebook/dp/B0BKLC9DYY/#
Reviews And Features:
Book Review: ‘Do What You Love – Fragility of Your Flame’ by MJ Mallon
A review of Marjorie Mallon’s new book. Do What You Love .
I am thrilled to say that three of my poetry collections, (Mr. Sagittarius, The Hedge Witch & The Musical Poet and Lockdown Innit,) have been requested by prestigious libraries in the UK: The British Library, The Bodleian Library Oxford University, the Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales and Trinity College Dublin for Legal Deposit.
Add the book to your TBR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63114445-do-what-you-love
Other poetry/flash fiction collections:
Kyrosmagica Publishing
The Hedge Witch And The Musical Poet
https://books2read.com/u/mv1OeV
Mr. Sagittarius Poetry and Prose
http://mybook.to/MrSagittarius
Anthology – This Is Lockdown, (poetry, diaries and flash fiction – kindle)
http://mybook.to/Thisislockdown
Poetry during Lockdown – Lockdown Innit
http://mybook.to/Lockdowninnit
Colleen’s publishing services including cover design and formatting which I can recommend:
My Services: Unicorn Cats Publishing Services
Poetry also features in my highly acclaimed YA Fantasy series. Each chapter begins with a short poem. The Curse of Time Book 1 Bloodstone and Book 2 Golden Healer are published by Next Chapter Publishing.
https://www.nextchapter.pub/books/bloodstone
https://www.nextchapter.pub/books/golden-healer
https://www.nextchapter.pub/authors/mj-mallon
Beautiful, Marje 🥰
Thanks Ritu. 😊 x
Hi Marje, two beautiful and romantic poems
Thank you so much Robbie. 💓
So beautiful, Marje! You really captured the emotions.
Thank you so much Denise.xxx
Awww these Etheree poems were great, Marje. I love them both. How did you get your cute little bitmoji to feature motion? How cool is that? 🌹💛🌹
Aww thank you. I have no idea how that happened with the bitmoji.lol.
Wow! I looked it up. You have to jump through hoops on Snapchat to get your bitmoji into a gif. I love it!
Oh, not on Snapchat. I just diwnloaded tgis from bitmoji as is. Must have been a gif! Btw adding your publishing services link to this post. X
Thank you! 🦄🐈🐈⬛ I don’t have that option for the cool Bitmoji gifs! They are really cute! 🤣
Gurl, you have me blushing!
Lol. ❤️
Beautiful poems, Marje!
Thank you Yvette. 😀
Marje – this is so beautiful – I feel like practically every line of this poem is a poem in and of itself…
Sincerely,
David
Thank you so much Ben. 💓
You’re welcome! BTW, please feel free to call me ‘David’. That is my first name.
The word ‘ben’ simply means ‘son of’ in Hebrew, and my father’s name was ‘Alexander’. I created my blog in his memory, you see.
I know it’s confusing because ‘Ben’ is a popular name in English. I’m sorry for the confusion!
Much love,
David
Oh of course, will do, David. Have a lovely day.
🤗 Marje 🤗
Two beautiful poems, Marje. I love the passion and sensuality that the image is eliciting. Well done!
Many thanks Diana. So kind. 😊
‘Love Unchained’ is a beautiful poem, MJ ~ Love and laughter are two essentials in life!!
I am tempted to write verses about love ❤️ and this is me working towards that goal. A new project! Plus working on 3rd novel! A huge project! Thanks for your support, dear Christy. X
You’re amazing 💗
Blushing! ❤️ x
I’ve gotten a bunch of roses …once. But then everyday is a day for love when you have a good partner! 💕
Absolutely true Jules. 🙂
Beautiful, Marje x
Thank you Toni. x