If Only For a Day

Serendipity came into play, when I stumbled upon a gallery, I was a tourist in a seaside town, shopping midst a vast array while blinding rays of sun’s reflection, caught my close propinquity In one window, several seascapes, bucolic seaside scenes but, one small painting called to me,..a harbinger of all my fantasies I cupped my hands around my eyes...and that was when I sighed.... It took my breath, and I was kept a captive by the artist's pride... A lovely landscape of a town, the village of my dreams This very street now, whence I stand, but from a different theme Redolent of days erstwhile of scenes, from time quite long ago Before the tourists trampled ground, and shopped for souvenirs This village poised, beneath the hills...turned back two hundred years Where cottage homes wore faded frames, on efflorescence sands demesne spreading wild and free, and skies were azure bands Narrow lanes branched far away from roads that went astray dipping down to petrichor dunes, where grasses bend in wind A general store and a blacksmith shop, and summer never ends Seagulls glide with angel wings, against the afternoon The peaceful lift that lives within, how wonderful it looms... With a dalliance of my own epiphany, ..my thoughts are wild and free how ephemeral it would be if I could freeze this day If I could pull it out to see and visit it...again, If I could bring it back when I am down, ...this peaceful afternoon... Where leaves would never fall from trees, so ancient in their sway And the gentle slopes would never know cruel storms of winter days Where tears would never fall, again, and age, a timeless thing If I could paralyze this town, the way it was back then If time could be my captive prize.....if only for awhile… I'd smile, if once I were allowed, a chance, to step inside ___________________________________________________ 3/15/16 For Contest: "A Day In A Town" Sponsored by Nayda Ivette Negron Required Words Used: 1.Bucolic 2. Dalliance 3. Demesne 4. Efflorescence 5. Ephemeral 6. Epiphany 7. Erstwhile 8. Harbinger 9. Petrichor 10.Propinquity 11.Redolent 12. Serendipity