Fragile Dreams

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Between hours from morn to sundown I drift in a place of nowhere-- and though birdsongs seemingly coo “It’s alright; you are young" frailties leave me wanting each and every move that twines us. These doleful eyes hide away behind a cloud of ebon shades, expressing numbness or is it vulnerability quite undone when melancholia seethes, aimless--- our world, our co-owned pledge disconnecting us from a language now unknown like torn ampersand. I press my hand on a montage and wonder about all possibilities, yet times flit along zones once alive only to bury dreams, unless unless... ```` Your Best Free Verse 2020 Contest For John Hamilton Written 5/19/2020 Re-Submitted 5/24/2020

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Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 5/27/2020 2:27:00 PM

- Dreams can be so much and it's not always easy to understand them - Dreams are the best therapy for us humans ... and dreams can be fulfilled - Congratulations on your winning poem, Nette :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Aditi Mishra

Date: 5/27/2020 1:46:00 PM

Love the way you have described the possibilities of multiple interpretations in dream verses. Congratulations on your win Nette :)

Silent One

Date: 5/27/2020 6:43:00 AM

We all now this place as we all drift there, except for night workers.. they are the opposite lol.. Congratulations on your placement in the contest..