When longings and reveries are captured
in moments of fantasy
As you gaze into a starry night
dreaming of crimson Knights and Castles
Wishing to be saved from the flames of dragons
and seeking visions of a lover with noble blood
Walking with you through a castle's keep
towards a garden of beauty
Where a rose is plucked and placed in your hand
as a treasured gift of romantic yearnings
Allowing your heart to drift away on clouds
into the heavens
As you are carried in the arms of a Knight
through the halls of the castle
where torches shine on the cobbled stones
to light the way to love's embracing call
These are the dreamings of your heart
and the romantic pagentry of your soul
Through haunting steps was I lured here
By a melody faint but clear
To this glen where fancy drifted
By the rays my sight was gifted
Peering through a portal twixt
Fae and mortal realm are mixed
With heavy eyelids did I trace
Beyond a doorway fairy laced
A land that to a sleeper seeming
Would only appear to one who's dreaming
So with a nodding head did I
Accept an invitation devised
To set aside these earthly ways
And wonts belonging to the day
For a realm where sprites aplenty
Weave a spell soaked litany
They prance and dance for my surprise
To these misty mortal eyes
And caper on until a time
For fairy bells to warning chime
The dawning of lights soon arrival
To Herald the end of dreams survival
Now all the fae folk gathered hence
Did ask a further moment whence
To linger this side of the gate
And escape their morning fate
They beckon to this dreamers eyes
And plead that for one moment more
Deny the truth which soundless lies
Beyond the bounds of dreamings door
Expect changes that you know will grow this love in time
Expect these changes which should not be dreaded, but open each of our hearts like ROSE BUDS
Expect changes of a frantic bride waiting for her groom.
The types of changes which tips its hat to an AUTUMN AFTERNOON. Expect fiery changes that may consume each of our hearts in flames.
One beloved to another expect these changes of subtle pains that come with TORRENTIAL rains
Expect changes of social madness at a spring wedding of BLISS when kissed.
Now seasons turn with a twist
And all is fair on a summer afternoon. Expect changes which may stay 'til the festive SPARK of JUNE.
When all has SIMMERED and is fancy and steamy, acknowledge these days as FINE and DREAMY.
Then the LAUGHTER of spring and summer mingle when autumn touches and more to tingle.
Soon WINTER RUSHES in, a lightly falling snow exceeding the joy I hoped for akin to HUNGRY WAVES LICKING THE OCEAN'S GLADDENING SHORES.
Expect changes with impossible meanings, and fair weather dreamings!
Shall I gather up
Those the possibilities that I
I instead of dreams shall have a joint reality
Ever so though those the blossoming hue
The dreamt dreamings of you
The honored view of us together
For possible rendezvous
And O' thine caressing smile
Your captivating spirit
Your soul illuminates out
I want to be married
Perish the thought
And shall it be not
I'm overjoyed with envisions of The view.
of a possible life loving you here on this world
May I love you right down through your soul
3/27/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
All in lies
and to hope betrayed
this human prayer
in requests of faith
holds the precipice to its heart
All divest by such noncommittal love
all broken by the dreamings of
but to its feet lays petition
for the signatures of psychopaths
All becomes contrary to the heart
endorsement beneath threat
to stand alone
with all this frigid hate
Corpses by numbers capitulate
compiled in easy flippant verbiage
designates a willful slaughter
for all the love of peace
and with petty price elucidate
the why-fores agony
wherefores impartiality
signed away by sociopaths
So all becomes this frigid hate
and ruled by the secular dictators of death
a human prayer
in requests of faith
holds the precipice to its heart
I can remember time of wonder
when you appeared before my eyes
like fleeting vision like a thunder,
pure queen of beauty and sunrise.
In tiresome longing of despair
in noisy troubles of ado
your tender voice was in my air
I saw sweet dreamings about you.
Years passed. A riot of rebellion
dispelled these dreamings of the past
I heard your tender voice so seldom
Your skyey features almost passed.
In wilderness of gloomy prison
I spent my very quiet days
without a deity and reason
to cry, to live, to love, to blaze.
And soul awakened with the wonder
and you are here before my eyes
like fleeting vision, like a thunder,
pure queen of beauty and sunrise.
In ecstasy my heart left prison
I have my deity and your face
inspires me. That is the reason
to cry, to live, to love, to blaze.
P.S. This translation of poem by Alexander Pushkin
Every now and then,the words once easy flowing
hold back from revealing what I'm knowing
and lost I am to where this poem was going..
Building in significance
the words are lost to all innocence
release is a failure of intended diligence
and I'm trapped in my losing indifference.
Perhaps a laxative would work as a stimulus,
release and expel me from this chrysalis,
provide some imagery of dreamings less frivolous
excuse me while I get a little mischievous.
In this intense consternation
every word lies in constipation
seeking is rigidly intensified
and proceeds with force and agitation
as the thoughts remain anesthetized.
The waterfall flows
reflected in the rays of the sun
as if they were diamonds in brilliant glow
with clarity only temporary in the water's run.
The humid air clusters along the layered stones
misting the algae growth green and thick
a mini forest clustering the edge where it has grown
allowing the water to flow fast and slick.
A streaming rhythm in its secluded dance
echoing the close of seasons
that easily comes and goes in metamorphic trance
and the change returns holiday dreamings.
A momentary pause, the hike, the campers walk
reveals beauty and imagery beyond compare
with whispered awes and friendly talk
gives rise to outdoors enticements if we dare.
Will these words ever reach you?
Will you ever understand?
That it has always been about you
As if it’s been planned
All those silent pleas
All the prayers to the gods
All the words I’ve whispered
Through this life I’ve plod
The winds have carried my thoughts
The shadows, my longings
Every sunrise, my hopes
And every sunset, my dreamings
Expect changes that you know will
Grow this love in time.
Expect these changes which are not dreaded
But open each of our hearts like ROSE buds.
Expect changes of a FRANTIC BRIDE
Waiting for her groom.
The types of changes which tips its hat to
An autumn afternoon.
Expect fiery changes that may consume
Each OF our hearts in flames
One belove to another expect these changes
Of subtle pains that come with torrential rains.
Expect changes of social madness at a spring
Wedding of bliss when kissed.
Now seasons turning with a twist.
And all is fair on a SUMMER AFTERNOON.
Expect changes which may stay 'til the
Festive SPARK OF JUNE.
When all has SIMMERED and is fancy and
Steamy acknowledge these days as
Fine and DREAMY, then the laughter of
Spring and summer mingle when
Autumn touches and more to tingle.
Soon winter rushes in a disguise at first,
A slow falling snow.
Exceeding the joy I hoped for.
Akin to hungry waves licking the OCEANS
GLADDENING SHORE.
Expect changes with impossible meanings
And FAIR WEATHER DREAMINGS.
Star Gazing and Future Night Dreamings
I the gazer,that so admire glimmering stars on summer nights
Transfixed, and burning deeply from each beckoning call;
Sky filled with such divine and twinkling galactic sights,
A most beautiful blessing gifted to inspire humans one and all
Stand I briefly, on an earthly and lonesome glistening plane;
With mighty oceans that hold great mysteries and golden treasures;
Yet the sky's brilliant shining wonders keep me sane,
And are by far one of my admired and greatest pleasures.
Forests that rest beneath that glittering starlight glow,
Are beauties that need its far illuminating lights,
Glimmering stars on summer nights, show more than we may know;
As we in wonder, see infinity in sparkling, starry heights;
Out there far into eternity's vast reaching infinite shores,
We may yet find our destiny upon another earthly realm,
For our great dreams and future hopes are not sold in stores;
Nor achieved by sailing ships with no captain at the helm.
And man, that found great use for galactic posts to navigate.
May yet in his heart, far away, conquer his weakness of hate!
Robert J. Lindley, 12-03-2015
(Rhyme)
You are love that's ceaseless
With love you've defined
Each moment love's been told
With blessings I just know.
Echoes of thoughts that I have
Awakening dreamings of love;
Light of heaven so bright and shining
Through portals of love that just flow.
Cast shadows so bright and so grand
With love that will get us all through,
With dreams to make them come true
This world belongs just to me and you.
With each approaching new day
Your heart and mine are forever entwined.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
December,04,2014
You are love that's ceaseless
With love you've defined
Each moment love's been told
With blessings I know.
Echoes of thoughts I have
Awakenings and dreamings of love;
Light of heaven so shining
Through portals of love that will flow.
Cast shadows so bright and so grand
With love that will get us through,
With dreams to make them come true
This world belongs to me and you.
With each approaching new day
Your heart and mine are forever entwined.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
November,13,2014
A flash lit up the sky,
As thunder grumbled by the rain,
My heart lay gripped with pain,
My mind going insane this way,
Hot and cold air at play,
While dreamings drift and sway around,
The wayward thoughts abound,
Where love dared not be found instead,
The dreams came in my head
And in this storm to bed I’ll go,
For wonderings I know
Allow not love to grow within,
For fear that would be sin,
Yet thunder, my chagrin, still roars
As lightning kissed rain pours
Cleansing the muddied floors of why!
Form: Luc Bat
O deviant is my dark mind
That fills my dreamings with dark lust
And hunger screaming within trust
So bound am I this want to find.
I have become a servile slave
Her bidding given by a wave
Is done before I’m left behind.
So dark the wantings of my soul
Embracing love within her pain
My lips pleading hurt me again
To ease my need and make me whole
In love or hate I need her touch
The poison that I want too much
Dictates her pleasure is my goal.
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