My Heart-art Collection

Poetics Aside Prompt: Write a poem about something you collect (or would collect if you could).

I collect original pieces of art

Displayed in galleries of my heart

I’ve seen the color of love’s soft sigh

Blend with tears of hello and good-bye

I’ve kept the bittersweet, beautiful ache

That only the pigment of love can make

I seal the echo of summer’s faint call

Where oceans of memory rise and fall

The spectrum of love’s vast and vivid display

Steals both my breath and my years away

Oh can't you hear that plaintive chant?

Of moments as they lilt and dance

...tuning the corridors of the heart

As we marvel at love's treasured works of art

© Janet Martin