Vagabond Reveries

Vagabond Reveries I awoke one apple-ripe autumn afternoon, While shifting my necessity to care, dreaming, To gaze upon the twisting trail in reveries of untethered reality A quest for halcyon enigmas that chased me into cloudy castles. And glancing back over fields of maize and green apple trees I dreamt of meandering - suntanned faces, gentle eyes, Campfire stories told in stargazer mists on childhood summer nights Country roads and country stores with squeaky hinged screen doors. I saw through mists kaleidoscopes of skyscraping cities, living postcards, Steaming, groaning, sweating-swaying - Crowded avenues named aspiration and pipedreams of working faces Pushed into honeycombs of question’s smoke reflecting my reflection. Through gossamer fleeting fragments rumbled symphonies In movements of freight cars and highway hum Vagabonds of REM sleeping tugged at chugging feasts Of my winter-spring planned fetes and wakes and festival jubilees. A wispy scent of reminisce felt the rushing, ever rushing, sun Dashing headlong ahead of earth in my wishing stars Pulling earth like a dawdling toddler running into chimeras of Fleeting dawns and uncatchable dusky time in taunted moonlit glee. Stormy darkness of gypsy memories throbbed in lightning flashes Illuminated my godless thundering regrets On wild midnights stumbling through windswept briar tangled valleys, Soul soaking rains of prodigal shame, and I remember waking to grace. 9-4-21 Contest: "V" New or Old Sponsor: Constance La France 1-23-23 Contest: Poetry Marathon Mile 24 Sponsor: Mark Toney 24 Lines