2 Madame Ranevskaya's Reverie

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Hoping to get back to more standard interaction soon. Didn’t anticipate the toll on my personal time of late, So please forgive this current post-and-run M.O. 🙏🏻🕊️

 

(2) Madame Ranevskaya’s Reverie

 

I dance beneath boughs heavy with spring,

wine-warm laughter on my tongue.

The air tastes of childhood and lost letters—

murmurs of father, of home.

 

Yet every footstep echoes farewell;

hope, a threadbare gown I once wore.

I sip nostalgia like champagne—

sweet, effervescent, and gone too fast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • arqios

    Here’s the second instalment promised several days ago. The Cherry Orchard, Chekhovian suite of poems…

  • sorenbarrett

    This one smells of nostalgia and has the taste melancholy. Very good word choice puts in my fave category

    • arqios

      Many thanks Soren, she must miss her orchard and the life and memories she had there. 🙏🏻🕊️

      • sorenbarrett

        My pleasure

      • arqios

        1/3 slow start today

      • Tristan Robert Lange

        Friend, this feels like toast at the edge of ruin...the way Madame sips memory like champagne while everything quietly slips out of reach. “Hope, a threadbare gown” is a phenomenal line. Line envy exists too, you know? 🤣 This is gorgeous and ghosted. 🌹👏

        • arqios

          Haha 😜 envy is human… to continue porting is divine🙏🏻🕊️

          • Tristan Robert Lange

            Totally! 🤣

          • Teddy.15

            Now there is a meeting I would have loved to have had. This is just a joy, especially the end, when we meet after a long absence we should be drinking champagne 🍾 🍾🍾🍾

            • arqios

              She seemed to know how to party!

              • Teddy.15

                Nothing wrong with that... 💜

              • Keeter C

                Nice

                • arqios

                  Thanks

                • Poetic Licence

                  A sense of reflection maybe with a tinge of sadness, nicely expressed write

                  • arqios

                    Thanks kindly, most appreciated🕊️🙏🏻

                    • Poetic Licence

                      You are very welcome

                    • Damaso

                      Cheers to this piece then. Tinged with nostalgia and a beautiful, longed-for landscape. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for sharing. Best regards.

                    • Tony Grannell

                      The sweet sorrow of a rare vintage effervescing to the last drop. An exquisite verse, arqios.

                      Wishing you all the best,

                      Tony.

                    • arqios

                      Thanks for the Fave @Priya Tomar

                    • Kevin Hulme

                      Enjoyed. # Misty Coloured Memories, of the way we were# as the Song says.



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