pepper me with grace
let me peer beyond shapes of surface haze
where senses unfasten perception
flitting light kisses
through spirit’s copper sands
inhaling myrrh
exhaling sandalwood
in this silent
façade of cerulean shade
pepper me with grace
This is a piece using the wordle from The Sunday Whirl. Follow the link to check out other poets’ responses to the prompt.
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Brenda, everyone’s already said it, but that is a great line. I like how this one goes below the surface, the facades and surface hazes to something deeper – to grace itself. Lovely.
Richard
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I’m with everyone: love the line “pepper me with grace”. It sets the rhythm for the whole poem. And, despite the short length of the poem, I had to look hard to find the wordle words. They worked so well, it took me a while 🙂
margo
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Beautiful, Brenda! Grace does indeed spice up life, so I like the notion of being peppered with it. 🙂
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‘pepper me with grace’ – I love it; and I like that you use it to wrap the poem.
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I really like the juxtaposition of the words pepper and grace. And “inhaling myrrh / exhaling sandalwood” are beautiful, fresh images.
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Lovely mantra of a poem, Brenda.
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Love the whole of this Brenda, like sitting next to someone and catching the whisper of a private prayer. Beautifully executed and I like Viv’s ‘cadenced’ and agree with it as well,
Elizabeth
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Lovely, Brenda and I agree… like a prayer.
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Delicately done. Seamless. And you found a way to avoid the beach. I doubted it could be done with those words.
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Brenda, this is lovely. Reads like a prayer. I am sure I could stand to be “peppered with grace”.
Pamela
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Whew! I’m with Mary.
Lovely, sense-tingling poem.
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Thanks for buzzing by on your lovely lavender scooter. I can see you flitting from site to site leaving impressions in your wake.
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Isn’t it cute. I’d fall off the reality. sigh.
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Rich images here, beautifully cadenced.
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Great use of cadence as a verb, Viv! I love it. 🙂
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That is beautiful.
With its repeating first a last lines it reads as a prayer.
I liked – ‘where senses unfasten perception.’
Wonderful!
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Thanks Susannah…those weren’t even the wordle words. 😉
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I especially like inhaling myrrh and exhaling sandalwood. And there is not a person alive who could not benefit from being ‘peppered with grace.’
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Thanks Mary…those were the lines that gave me the most pleasure once written. I agree with your comment.
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