Best Dreamscape Poems

* A collaboration with the awesome Liam McDaid

Fair maiden who sails on each crested wave 
Drawn from the deepest ocean currents 
Galloping white steeds landing on golden sands 
Within each beat growing stronger feelings 
Exploring beauty inside this magically universal dream 
Developing under every passing moon
Joining with shadows we unite...

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When Neptune's 
nostalgic sighs, 
weave ruffled rosaries 
of brocade ink, 
bleeding from 
blackberry wrinkles 
in torrential time, 
I wonder if 
herculean eyes
of my earthen heart, 
are afraid of being 
abandoned by the
electric rhapsody 
of life's alienated 
aroma. 

Swinging on the
translucent
parabola of a
frozen rainbow, 
my fate...

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We slip into the cradle of night's arms,
Beyond our weary, wakeful selves, we go.
Where hopes take flight untouched by worldly harms,
And whispered wants, like drifting petals, flow.

Beneath a veil of stars and moonlit beams,
We cross to foreign lands of our design,
A portal to a world...

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Falling acorns gather like pebbles on a beach
Floating leaves sway which are hard to reach
Blue jays sounding, seeking food to eat
Squirrels scrimmage in brigades, not doubting defeat

Brisk air puffing, glittering sun streams thru
Rabbits hip and hop over the wet morning dew
Sparrows and finches begin their...

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“Imagine,” he said, “the magic of pretending,
whether one is in bed or on a mountaintop.
—quote by poet

                     The rush of wind,
   and hush...

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In the quiet, the night to focus on
Dreams escape my head bringing dusty eyes
I follow its lonely steps to darkness
The moon begins to shine, starts to revise

Fog envelopes me holding me so tight
I can’t breathe, suffocating, I don't lie…
End of life forms before me, true...

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Dreamscape
A Two-Verse Triolet
A Two-Verse Triolet, An Ekphrastic poem, on viewing the Mona Lisa


Da Vinci set the scene,
depicted background first.
She longed to priss and preen,
Da Vinci set the scene.
She felt somewhat unclean
yet fed a burning thirst.
Da Vince set the scene,
depicted background first.

Her smile bespoke her lust
as...

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In a tranquil valley with banks dark and deep
Silted streams into dreary conduits seep

Shadows bearing yesterday's light on addled walls creep
Images from the dark recesses around each corner peep

Enchanting winds over the heightened senses do sweep
Animated figures from the bleary crevasses leap

Sorrowful clouds hover; o'er...

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eyes opened wide
I see fields and rolling hills through my morning dew drop
this is my dreamscape
walking through the fisheye lens
a friend, a stranger
smile of a Cheshire cat
the kaleidoscope rains down
a golden beach with that scorching, scorching sun
exuberating its power
lending it to my already open eyes...

Or...

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It wasn’t till sleep's midnight
that I heard the down-pouring 
of day fade-away, only
to give-in to a gospel of rain.

Struggling to re-live folk tales, 
mortal owl and pot of porridge.
“If you can see what fills you up,
you can drink from Nature’s cup.”

Looking over the edge of...

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I walk in the forest of dreams;
the colours vibrant, the birdsong 
melodious. The sun warm as it 
twinkles through the rustling leaves. 
Discontentment crushed underfoot. 
It is so beautiful. 

I bathe in a river of love. 
The gentle water lapping 
at the edge of my...

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Barren wasteland covers this zone
Cold and white it stands,
Though what beauty reveals is so unreal
That humans walk the land.

Fierce winds torment at height
Smothering all in their wake,
But brave mountains take on their might
Ending the tundra’s crusade

Squeezed between the valleys below
Shivering they try to stay still,
For...

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Your dreams are so goddamn vivid.

You've been to the farthest corners of the forever expanding space,

And you've been parts to the Earth not even yet theorized of.

You've saved lives and you've ended them.

And you've been alien and fauna.



Your dreams are so goddamn real.

You've become the...

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Dreamscape.

Soft mottled mists thickly swirl in the night,
Blanketed dreamscape composed in my mind,
Drifting unknowing towards some veiled site, 
Through perceptibly thinning ethereal blind, 
A tableau appearing by unconscious design, 
As silvery grey wisps dissipate to reveal, 
You, wreathed in light and moonshine, 
Each detailed rendition...

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In dreams of yonder, wishes wistfully conceive,
A cradle of lost tomorrows, where shadows sway;
To a realm unseen, where hearts believe,
Past where twilight’s lulling lullabies lay,
A world where reverie and reality secretly play.

Through the veil of verity… 
     …Aisling nocturnally creates,
Mountains of...

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