
Waking, Now Armed with Butterfly Net
remiss bliss
I bid you stay
with a kiss
you fall away
eyelids flick
bringing freely
sudden death
a dirty trick
filling me
with your breath
puncturing softly
with careless resourcefulness
only to leave me
aloft in forgetfulness
in shrouds
on the brink
skewing blue
the clouds
lip-gloss pink
reclaim you
when my bed
became the very ground
that we unsheathed blissfully
now my head
empties of every grounded
word you breathed into me
with you along this alluring path
boding replay
a wonderful blunder
and now it’s your reassuring laugh
floating away
leaving me to wonder
if I ever knew its sound
from our beginning
or if that beginning
ever truly began
though I felt you near, around
my heart was grinning
as if we were ginning-up
the tides that ran
in this pale dawn I stand
matter ceasing to exist
I reach for your hand
scattering it in pastel mist
along with your forearm
elbow, dress-sleeve
your promises and charm
lukewarm reprieve
less than I was anticipating
leaving only me
cotton-candy cloud dissipating
where your heart should be
I’ve searched and retraced
our dreamy sham
you saw and embraced
me as I am
as no other had
and had I not leaned
in for more of you
could our moment have transcended
this trick of light?
I find myself glad
and sad that fate careened
into our floral view
as my tongue was apprehended
in thick of night
the sun won’t even pretend
to keep a fair score
can’t recall or comprehend
your name anymore
or if you ever had one
a dream of a life in retreat
dew drops of you rise, undone
but for a hummingbird’s heartbeat
I feel that I wrote
countless poems
dedicated to your eyes
shining only for me
repealed to remote
soundless moans
desiccated in pink skies
a pining, lonely sea
we won’t grow
from what plans remain
succumbing to sea
as bright fields
yawning bliss
I don’t know
what you stand to gain
when coming for me
as night yields
to dawn’s kiss
I must beg you, play not
with sleep so breezily
for next time you may not
get off so easily
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Brilliant…Will would love this 🙂
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I do love me some Willie Shakes! Thank you so much for the wonderful compliment. 🙂
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I re-read your poem while listening to the song in the video – wow! It adds another dimension to the dream-like quality in your poem. Perfect!
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Thank you. The poem itself was inspired by a wonderful dream I had that I began to lose the memory of as soon as the sun rose. I lost all the details of the dream, leaving only the sensation of how it made me feel.
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Those are sometimes the best dreams. I used to keep a notebook on my side table just to jot down dreams I would have before forgetting them. Unfortunately, my bad handwriting would make it impossible to decipher what I wrote when I was half asleep – oh well, sometimes dreams are meant to be savored only in the moment. Glad you were able to capture this one!
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