The Promise
by
Jess O’Connell
First Edition
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Contents
(Autumn)
Seasons Fall
Scattering of Hearts
Reverie
Horizons Time
Autumn’s Gold
Places Lost
Oceans of Sadness I
(Winter)
The Sea of Winter
Oceans of Sadness Part II
The Winter of Love
Box Shaped Heart
Myne
Heart Beat Still
Tymes
Loves Eventide
(Spring)
The Promise of Love
Spring
Wouldst
The Root of Thy Heart
Is
The Promise of Love
Oh Love
Preface
For many years I had always considered Olde Middle English to be rather
complicated as a read. Having never fully come to grips with it, particularly in school,
I threw out the idea of ever entertaining it as a way to write.
It would seem I was incorrect as one day the words just seemed to flow, even though
the words at first appeared complex in manner I altered it so it could be read with some ease.
So my writings started to drift from contemporary to olde and mixed variations.
The past meets the present!
In this first ever published collection of my works, categorized under the theme of three seasons and
the sea, beginning with autumn followed by winter through to spring.
I felt this would be a good representation of loves transition from its untimely demise, subsequent
longing and broken heart, to the promise of love.
Written with warmth and feeling straight from the heart, this book intends to take readers,
on a journey of emotions.
Enjoy!
Unwinding of time, unraveling the past, unspiraling the unending, the path of love.
Painting the canvas in lavish colours of fire and flames burn like a volcano.
The thread now spins, the fibers fray, the winter is setting in and so the frost begins...
Seasons Fall
Scattering of Hearts
Closing gates
Autumns rain
of golden rusts
falling
leaves of memories
discarded love
and once
whispered words
Each leaf, a moment
a fragment of life
scattered
Twirling, tumbling
vanish before my eyes
sinking beneath
the earthen clay
memories gone
into yesterday.
Reverie
Having your arms around me
encapsulated, insulated
even though I’m in flight
my feet have not left the ground
There against it all, we stand
you and I, super beings
from an imaginary land
I'm held fast and strong,
yet gentle with love by you.
The people disappear
one by one, fading
into misty oblivion
my eyes see only you
Liquidness of warm brights
your eyes reflect back
the closeness of being
the heart only knows
As you hold me closer
it is then you let go,
and I am pulled away
now you become a blur
My eyes open
the world is cold
glaringly empty
even though it is full
I took a deep breath
and sighed, I lift my head
from the pillow,
another day
taking you further away
Horizons Time
Beyond the horizon
beyond the sunset
Beyond the sea
beyond the distant line,
as far as I can see.
It is there that I find you
It is there you are waiting
It is there you breathe
It is there my life is
fulfilled in every dream.
Sadly those days are gone
Yet your horizons stay,
at each dawn
and dusk you come out to play
I feel you in the morning,
and in the evening sun
In the crisp note of the morning air
and the rustling of the fallen leaves.
Autumns Gold
We strolled through the park
One autumn morning
The moist air and scented leaves
All filling our senses
We remember these passages
This time
When happiness was yours and mine.
The amber rusted leaves
Descending from the trees
Scattered beneath our feet
Time stood still
You held me in your arms
And kissed my yielding lips tenderly.
A white swan upon the lake
Floating softly by
You looked at me with love in your eyes
A passion so deep it caught me by surprise
And then we walked on further still
We laughed so merrily
Our hearts were bound for eternity
But then a storm came up
and took away the loving cup
You left a heart full of love for you
And you knew my heart was true
Time will come and go
But this day I had loved you so
A place in my heart you will always be
It will always be there for you to see.
Places Lost
In something once new
now all but old and gray
Solemnity bites
through the winters chill
Remembrances of one so dear
Voices once graced
this beautiful place
No longer sweetest sing
Bares heavily
the weight of my heart string
I wished not I
to say not a thing
For undoing the glove
Would only let
you see my hearts love
Oceans of Sadness
Part 1
He doesn’t understand
my emotional feelings
absolute tears
and heavy heart
I shudder, shake
my being erupting
in the quake
of yet another storm
My heart
full of love
and strong passions
abandoned hopelessly
in a colossal shipwreck
I am not strong
but in my weakness
love has
had its strength
But somehow
he watches in jest
to see
the waves
thrash upon the bows<
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now there is no rest.
Summers sun is now gone.
Languishing high in the sky, the winter sun. The warmth no longer touches the skin. Shortened days and longer nights, bitter chilling winds sweep the heart...
The Sea of Winter
Oceans of Sadness
Part Two
Deep within
the oceans of sadness
lies the remains
of what once
was my heart.
Love, deep
deeply yearning
yearning for the warmth
the comfort of your love
But solitude
swims around me
Darkest night ever
No peace
nor happiness
in sight
This vessel of love
Now wretched with pain
and emptiness
Time eats at my flesh
and devours my heart
Moss seaweed
and barnacles choke
The embers
of my earthly existence
In this vast ocean
alone
without you
My tears
replenished by the waters
that surround me.
And the love once known
now buried
forever
upon this ocean floor
The Winter of Love
Time has passed
it maybe years
it maybe a week ago
time stands still
now we here in winters glow
Life turns the spinning hands
wrinkled and veined from times passage
we, foundlings of spring love
turn the tides ebb and flow
The picture I cradle in my heart
of seasons and years that have flown passed
your love in that moment never dies
all that’s left is endless cries
The paused look of glance and fair
eyes brilliant, bedazzled of smiles
and light brown hair
Captive moments fleeting thus
Now, silence etched in stolen vein
endless days of no refrain
constant darkness, stilled in time
winters calling
end of time.
Box Shaped Heart
The box shaped heart
that seals away
the yearns that stains
the uncompleted heart
The key has turned
and all is locked
from sight
Loves urn
the ashes of the heart
Sharply the winds
in bitter cutting chill
now under key
fading distant memory.
The box shaped heart
once of velvet
richly red
decays threadbare
the hearts museum
Myne
Myne heart of old
Mye flesh is cold
Deathe
longed for
dull mye payne
of loves lost
whose eyes rayne
in mye soul.
Heart Beat Still
Alone through the woods and lakes I seek
craving for my hearts rest
Alone, but the crescent wave on a moon lit night
Your dreams carry me over and on each ripple
Gone are you, over beyond the horizon
tranquility seeks itself no more
buried 10 feet below
my heart has stilled and so has time
The briers have lent across it still
its sweetness belies its truth below
vacant and hollow
through the gated wall
where the blooms sit atop the quiet.
Tymes
Oh wanton fayre
oh lovles
sorrofull causth myn
hert
fel
upn thy grav
O wckd thy payn
hast
bynd to myn soul
whot chaunge
didst thou bryng
upon whot once
was fayre
I sterve for thee
Deth hast cast
thy gloom
pece not
disdayn
crueltie
sobbes
forloryn sighes.
Loves Eventide
In the evening twilight dwill,
I sat amongst the barley fields
then laying down upon blanket, t'was there
dazzled of the closing light where twinkling starbrights linger
encase is I of somber thought
down cast in laden of armour of heart
wherest I think of what hast used to be.
I caught once your golden cloud
I had held it gently thus even thou hast wanted to go
After many a year I let you drift back to far away
Oft since have I caught glimpses of thee
floating about so freely
Thou hast took my heart with thine own
the whisper of the gentle breeze that softly lulls this eventide
brings forth memories of thou gentler side
Whisked away from all my dayes.
And so in time, as time does, spring returns. Winter slowly drifts away. Life rekindles its warmth and glow. Onward the heart goes, forever restless, until...
The Promise of Love
Spring
Window seats
rain tears upon glass
yellow primroses
spring up at last
The earth and stars
clear in the sky
sun sits
cast its comfort shadows
A path
a different road
new light
new dawn
fresh dew morn
The embers
of yesterday
now scattered away
to the four winds
the path maybe longer
the future
hazy
From the ashes
the phoenix
will rise
as it is
with spring
blossoms
Wouldst
Wouldst thine eyes be kind to me?
Wouldst solitude prevail?
Wouldst my heart stop bleeding and find thee there
And love to hold in my arms?
Every fiber aches to be
Loved for eternity.
Wouldst thou be mine?
Wouldst thou look at me with loves reflection?
Or give it away to someone else
And me to face rejection?
Wouldst thee?
Wouldst thy hand hold mine?
Wouldst thee listen to my heart sing?
Or thou cast it away and
Cover thine ears?
Wouldst I be loved by thee?
Or didst thou wish me upon bended knee?
Wouldst thou hurt my love
And quench its fire?
Or wouldst thee wish me sink
In a darkened mire?
But all I wish is for thee
Wouldst at least loveth me
The Root of Thy Heart
Is to thee,
A rose,
Like thy endearments
Thy wonderment
To this sweetest fragrance,
Blessings upon thy heart.
Ask what of me
Thy will
Tis not thy beauty I cherish
But the root of thy heart
Thy very soul.
But thou did’st
Not wish for my love
Hither I wait for thee
To mirrorise myne affection.
Did'st thou hear my call
yonder through space?
Not bound am I
By the limitations
Of gravity
But by the heart that waits
Is
Is my heart like the wind to thee?
Does the storm rage on for a day or for forever?
Is time like a rock?
or but the quick dying embers in a fires grate?
Is the harvest rich or sadly poor?
Is anything given or taken?
Is my lone heart offered to the beating of two?
The Promise of Love
Sweet blossoms
scented air
pink and white
petals
falling here and there
The music fills
the room
melody of the heart
There you are
like a star
Lightness of air
renewing green
daffodils
and snowdrops
everywhere to be seen
March is here
and then April too
when May arrives
the world is alive
Unfolding
the arms
waiting a new
spring time of the heart
mapping another chart
Oh Love!
Love
oh what love is to be
what loves cherish
beholden in the heart
and wears smiles that
the sun’s rays cannot compete
Love
Oh love what it is to be
the drawn lines erased
encased hearts
every second its life beats
Love
Oh love what it is to be
what yearning burns
enraptured sings
burns our yearns into flames
Love
oh what love is to be
that dances around the heart
butterflies, like clouds
soft and light
Love
oh what love is to be