On gossamer wings my life floats into my mind,
cloudy shadows vague, puzzling and perplexing;
it seems my life has been more like opaque chapters,
sometimes the darkness, is fogbound and murky.
Yet, some unfathomable reverie brings me sweetness,
clouded in dimness, blurred and hazy and beautiful;
I linger in my reverie, in the mystifying mist of time,
and when it clears, I am left weeping with the love.
My life from birth to death is a book closing forever,
and my reverie will soon be opaque on the pages;
not penetrating the light again and non transmitting,
for I will be gone and all that I was will be obscure.
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November 24, 2019
Poetry/Verse/'Opaque Reverie'
Copyright Protected, ID 19-12089-913-02
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
Submitted to the contest, Strand Special 3
Brian Strand
Honorable Mention
Categories:
fogbound, death, life,
Form: Verse
"Come lovely and soothing death, undulate round the world,
serenely arriving, arriving. In the day, in the night, to all,
to each, sooner or later, delicate death."
_Walt Whitman
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On gossamer wings my life floats into my mind,
cloudy shadows vague, puzzling and perplexing;
it seems my life has been more like opaque chapters,
sometimes the darkness, is fogbound and murky.
Yet, some unfathomable reverie brings me sweetness,
clouded in dimness, blurred and hazy and beautiful;
I linger in my reverie, in the mystifying mist of time,
and when it clears, I am left weeping with the love.
My life from birth to death is a book closing forever,
and my reverie will soon be opaque on the pages;
not penetrating the light again and non transmitting,
for I will be gone and all that I was will be obscure.
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November 24, 2019
Poetry/Verse/Unfathomable Reverie
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1201-863-02
All Rights Reserved, 2019, Constance La France
Categories:
fogbound, death, life,
Form: Verse
Of heaviness
light
Laughter song
And bitter spite
In complex motion
Ever unbound
Of fogbound isles
Forever unfound
In cloud break
Moment of sun
Glistening green
Darkness undone
Of hope and glory
In bitter despair
Of loves found
Breadth of a hair
In ever balance
Darkness and hue
Transient
Fleet
Black and blue
Categories:
fogbound, longing, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
and in a sleepless silent fog
memories burnt out in faded sun
ossified bones shape quaker guns
the past a needle of deeds undone
dusk another skirmish yet unwon
and fogbound in silent sleep
hypnagogic gagged and bound
susurrous floating low and 'round
inducing visions, throaty sound
form the stranger, kundalini found
and silent in a foggy sleep
drop the level, slip the drum
slackened grip, faintly succumb
a final twist with nasal hum
shadows cling like spirit gum
and now asleep in fog and silence
quelling heart and stifled brume
nestled deep in cotton's tender womb
dawn burning off chimeric gloom
hearts in morning burst abloom.
Categories:
fogbound, dream, sleep,
Form: Rhyme