New Ring

[poliphilo]

We took Ailz's engagement ring in to be taken down a size and the silversmith (who made it) said she didn't dare touch it because the silver was worn so thin she was afraid it would fall to pieces.

So we've retired it and bought another.

The old ring is set with an alexanderite- a man-made stone that changes with the light from a reddish purple to a steely blue.

The new ring is set with a deep purple amethyst.

I guess one can't really get engaged again, but, hey....

I love you, Ailz.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Awww! How sweet. Maybe you can't get 'engaged' again, but the light of your love is reflected on all you touch...and we get to bask in its glow.

I insist on silver, myself!

[craftyailz.livejournal.com]

It seems so lunar and the moon rules our tides too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Silver is magical- much more so than gold.

Silver

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy coat the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

Walter de la Mare

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

HOw gorgeous. I really never understood why I preferred silver until Ailz said something about it being more 'lunar'. Exactly. I'm a moonchild, or at least consider myself so (love to find out how you find that out) my astrological 'stone' is the moonstone.

thank for posting this lovely poem. It is beautiful.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If you have an affinity for the moon then you're a moonchild- it's as simple as that.

My astrological stone is the garnet- and I wear one in a small ring on my little finger.

[silent-mouse.livejournal.com]

I don't see either why you can't get engaged again to the same person. No one is going to arrest you for that, I hope? :)

My wedding ring is plain silver. Most of the people would look at it and then say in that pitying voice: "_That's_ your wedding ring? Oh poor girl!" But I felt all along that it's right for me. And now I can quote you and the beautiful poem.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We chose plain silver for our wedding rings too- and we got the same reaction.