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Amore ♥ Love Is

May 30, 2013 by Carolyn Tody Leave a Comment

Amore ♥ Love Is

Love is what happens when my spirit touches you

and you, in turn, reach into my own

tracing my soul with your heart

Love happens when hopes and dreams come true

and positive influence comes our way

repaying passion its due

Love is a magical language, one the deaf can hear

a dialect that even a cripple can dance

syntax the blind can see

Love is a portal key that opens the infinite life force

It is a ‘Oneness’ without separation

Adoring affection, sans fear

Love resides in the doorway to a woman’s heart

not only in clothing, figure or hair

but in her beautiful eyes

Love reads the blueprint of Heaven’s yearning heart

building bridges from burning desire

dreaming by candlelight

Love for you will always persist in my soul everlasting

where a soft whisper echoes forever

your gift of a lingering kiss

Love is the passing whisper of spiritual wisdom

newly awakening a faltering heart

with tender understanding

Love endows a soul with compassionate feeling

this is why humankind sacrifices

and must ever remember

to embrace

…Amore ♥

~♥~

Fourth in the Romancing the Flames series for my romantic friends…

Adapted from its namesake published in “Voices”

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I wrote Amore to celebrate the life of a very special man. As his existence drew to a close our children and I held his hands, watching him reluctantly slip beyond and bathed in this tremendous love he felt for each of us. I also dedicate this to two additional friends who departed this very day and week…

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Playing To Me, Cello

May 10, 2013 by Carolyn Tody 1 Comment

~♥~

CELLO

Playing to me, Cello, inspire a mood…
make it rich, provocative, deep and inviting

~♥~

Reveal the whereabouts of my unassuming lover
Whose undulating waves pique a soulful hunger

End his hesitation, my shyness, imperceptible heat
Translate fiery mysteries incomplete, bittersweet

~♥~

Soon
a well-trod bridge
beckons Cello’s waves across
flowing through lacy window curtains
setting my hopeful heartstrings to soaring
over and through this hot, raging river,
the splendid moat enclosing
a royally regal, right
bountiful
castle

~♥~

Then
my wintry feet
glide together and follow…
crossing the span between, watching
as hands open a dim, weathered annex.
You beckon and smile, to my heartfelt joy
of cello mounting its rising crescendo
bestowing on me a precious gift,
transforming two lovers
rushing to embrace
romancing
afire.

…Carolyn J. Tody

~♥~

Third in the Romancing the Flames series for my romantic friends…

Extensively adapted from its namesake published in “Small Towns: A Map in Words”

Romancing the Flames is a portion of the DreamSculptr blog at http://cactusrose.wordpress.com/

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♥ Cello ~ Inspired by following my long held dream to create a closer tie with the whole theme park experience. This incident happened barely months after simultaneously smashing the glass ceiling into Professional Development and quaking in a Sargasso Sea of broken hearts. You might call this a reset button. When the massive Orlando Disney resort invited me to Florida, I managed to arrange an educational leave from my professional career in Michigan and find a realtor to help sever ties on property keeping me emotionally tied to the past. As luck would have it, I landed in Olde World Antiques in the Magic Kingdom Liberty Square, staring directly across a bridge at the castle whenever my seminar schedule ended. Visitors often mistook me for one of the little dolls lining the Annex wall, while men frequently spent an hour or more chatting with me during quiet times. This experience lasted only a few months. Even so, the window beside me with its lacy curtains nearly drove me crazy with a desire to be let out of ‘prison’ into the sunshine and resume my life. Here, new dreams arose. I began to write. DreamSculpting was born. Coaching came naturally and spellbound coworkers spun away to follow their dreams. Memories too indelible to erase subsided. Cellos joined my musical collection. Moonbeams skipped across the bridge and whispered sweet songs in my ear, their promises carrying me back into mundane life considerably enlightened… and to this very day, just a little wistful at the sound of a cello. ♥ C

Only In Dreams

April 18, 2013 by Carolyn Tody 2 Comments

Only In Dreams

If only in my dreams, sweetheart

we’ll lie by the flames and share

the best cuisine our life offers

then we’ll lie on a flying carpet

soaring o’er spectacular hills

… through a starlit, wintry night.

~♥~

We’ll need no other warmth, just

radiant smiles and fiery sweet souls

embracing with warm, trembling arms

mesmerizing sheep scattering below

scrambling stars granting wishes above

… illuminating a world of love

~♥~

Now fireplace embers are slowly dying

as we fly back into the darkened room

angel wings flap, a melting of snow

shaking, shuddering, faces highlighted

stoking new life into sputtering flames

… hopeful hearts a’blazing

~♥~

Recently adapted from “Fireside Nights,” published 2010 in “Seasons of Life”

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Revisiting Childhood with Carousel Art

June 22, 2011 by Carolyn Tody Leave a Comment

If you love Carousel Art and the related Painted Ponies as much as I, you will love this video about Disney’s restoration of the horses on the King Arthur Carousel…

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I fell in love with the carousel and painted pony art form as a child. Then we moved. Later, after having children, I rediscovered carousels. With my career speeding off in other directions, I discovered antique toy auctions. Between work, college, seminars, ‘estate’ management, and rearing teens, I forgot my passion again.

Today I write and explore the forgotten worlds of my dreams, so I’m rediscovering this interest dear to my heart. Carousel books rest in a case less than three feet from my sleigh bed. While I am still guilty of moving in scattered directions, I can quickly overview my growing venue of interests with those books and ornaments I’ve collected or received from my fantastic children over the year… including an awesome, intricately detailed musical carousel from my daughter which I enjoy daily.

Pictures included for your enjoyment are: the Painted Ponies book, a carousel art calendar, an old carousel art shopping guide, and my musical miniature carousel replica .

I started this blog when this video inspired me. In fact, the Art of Disney has always inspired my creativity. I will update this item from time to time as I find links to new information. Now I return to the carousel art trail…

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