Echo of My Heart

moving outward from its source
drifting westward like the sun
soaring skyward beyond the clouds
bouncing downward reversing course
never wayward on this voyage
rearward path poignantly traversed
returning inward somewhat diminished
always the steward of my being
this awkward echo of my heart

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Linked to dVerse Poets Pub — Quadrille #134 — We {heart} poems, where De Jackson is hosting and instructed us to put our heart into it, and pen a poem of precisely 44 words (not counting the title), including some form of the word heart.

Quadrille: A poetic form introduced at dVerse Poets Pub circa 2011. The rules for Quadrille: not including the title, a poem of exactly 44 words using the prompt word or its variant.

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33 thoughts on “Echo of My Heart”

    1. Thank you for the prompt. The word “echo” has been echoing in my brain all day, and when you offered of the prompt word “heart”, I just put them together.

  1. Very excellent. I personally felt most at home with, “rearward path poignantly traversed” – it’s… well, poignant. Altogether, however, powerful word choices, excellently crafted.

  2. Ron.
    I love the underlying thought, that it’s the movements of the heart that track our progress in this voyage of life. Beautifully expressed.
    pax,
    dora

    1. Thanks Punam. It started as a poem about an echo but was magically transformed somewhere along the way.

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