LION AND BLUE ~~ LION ET BLEU

A FAIRYTALE  ~~  UN CONTE DE FEE





IN  A  LAND  FAR  AWAY

My lonely roars echoed far in a jungle that was old to me, a Lion in the Winter of his years, whose Heart had never known Spring.
  
Until that afternoon when in the darkness of silent thoughts, my yellow eyes

Were Dazzled Blue


 
Suddenly blossoms lit this dull stare when you, Brilliant, Beautiful Butterfly drifted into my Life.

Blue became….Blue was My LOVE, My LIFE, My ALL AROUND.
Happiness was a spring and summer that seemed could never turn to fall.

Though you told me,  ‘Someday, Lion, the time will come when I will have to leave you, in search of the Flower of the Sun.’

Those thoughts made me want to shut my ears or roar away a destiny which threatened our happy voyage across the Sea of Love.
 
The other butterflies clustered round my head, and off somewhere, I heard a Lioness call, but in My World, My Sky, there was only you My Bella Blue.

Though my open eyes seldom left your wings, one night you left me, Blue, in search of your golden destiny.
Then there was no world for me.
ENDLESS years I awaited your return.
But our boat drifted past as empty as my heart.

AND SO MY QUEST BEGAN.
In search of you I wandered far,
and all the while I thought,
‘WHY COULD WE NOT HAVE MET WHEN THE TIME WAS RIGHT,
WHEN YOUTH HAD LIT MY STARS.’

  

 
‘But yesterday is over,’   whispered the far~seeing giraffe,  ‘as tomorrow is yet to come.’ 
 
  ‘The only time that is ever right,’  rumbled the wise elephant,  ‘is  N O W,  so make haste,
this journey of yours is a ONE WAY TRIP ETERNALLY.’

As I climbed the grass towards the clouds, a yellow blossom appeared. 
Could it be your destiny?  Would you be there, Oh Blue?

This flower is the leopard’s,’  came the cheetah’s voice,  ‘It sprang from the Garden of his Soul.  You won’t find the LOVE of which you speak until your Roots have grown strong, grown deep.’
  
 In the dark of night or in the flame of morning sky, often HOPE would awaken in my HEART with the flashing of blue wings.  
 
But feathers covered them and not your Brilliance.
Then one day on the plain’s edge, where the wind blows fast and clean, a warthog came trotting by, a daisy in his mouth, and as he passed, I heard the words, 
‘LION, you have proven your LOVE, now let the Humble Daisies set you free.’

White and straight stood a daisy proudly at the field’s edge.
‘Come among us,’  beckoned the simple flower.
And so I strode through that meadow of honey and snow.
Then, not the tawny lioness’s purrrr or the tides of oceans could take me from my course.
But no blossom of the sun was there.

‘The brilliant flower you seek,’  lulled the daisies,  ‘Is springing now from your Lion’s Heart.’
And as rich pollen covered me, golden petals crowned my head.
Centuries….Years….Days….
How many passed, I don’t know. 
 
But born again was I when in the evening sky a dot of blue appeared against the moon.
And as the sky oranged with break of day, I saw you Blue.
But to Me Why Come,
when your search had been for that Golden Blossom who by now your
Heart had surely won?
 
At last your Voice I heard.
‘LION, LION!   DREAMS COME TRUE!

YOU DARED, YOU HOPED, YOU BELIEVED,
And for doing so ~
Look What You Have Become ~
MY GOLDEN MANED FLOWER HERO OF THE SUN!’


 
And   N O W . . . .  Blue! Blue! Brillliant, Bella Butterfly, again MY LIFE, MY ALL AROUND,
is You!




The End or The Beginning 











Daria Pew

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  1. WOW. I mean, WOW.

    Coming from YOU, a master of storytelling and finding the images to coincide, your encouragement this morning has a lot of MUSCLE behind it! YOU my dear are filled with the light of fairy magic and this is such a special treat. I thank you for his invitation and I am adding you to my side bar NOW!

    FABULOUS STORY AND PICS and a great way to keep my day charged!!! Anita

    Castles Crowns and Cottages

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    05.09.2012

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