Dream Quintain (Sicilian) Poems

Merry Christmas is a greeting of cheer,
bidding each other a joyous Noël.
A salutation that's spoken each year;
it's tradition, wherever Christians dwell;
a blessing that is music...

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Peaceful repose for 100 years
Resolute bad faerie will not win
Alas there will be no tears
I shall rest on with all my kin
In sweet dream, without...

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Like fireflies, glistening in the twilight
Filling hearts with the sweetest calm,
Coloring thoughts in peacefulness, so I write
Words reflecting the grace, its tender balm
Breathing joy through...

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Clement weather is often just my dream.
I don’t mind wispy white clouds way up high,
or marshmallow ones topped with whipping cream.
Alas, brooding nimbus are drawing...

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I long to hear the wandering rill;
its gentle song as it wanders past land.
Finding strength--so soon lost to a hill.
Meanders only creeks understand.
Deep in dreams,...

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Dreams

Like paper airplanes floating on the breeze
forever drifting gently to and fro
and guided freely with the greatest ease
whichever way the wistful winds may blow,
our deepest...

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*Image of Take In North America by Amtrak.
Training Experience: Novice

All onboard, the Pacific Coast-Liner,
it is seventy-seven, my first leave
of a first year's work. A bit...

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Life on Earth is but a brief interlude,
watercolors fading, becoming air.
Yet, loving once surely we could conclude
love is the purpose of our being there.
Night upon...

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Whispers of scarlet, orange and gold
Fall across the earth, crisp laughter
Reminding the soul to listen to the bold
Psalms of moments so often sought after
Gentle thoughts,...

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Scraps of paper mark his "paper-trail"
thoughts - quick scribbled as they passed
through the misty gate of ageing's veil
cling to a dream that couldn't last
sad ending...

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Candy canes pranced through his head and made him smile
The dream was the best one he had ever had at the age of three. 
Toys...

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I hear a child bemoan in dreams, reclaiming dreams,
His dreams he dreams alone of flying with songbirds,  
Picking and chewing, oozing juicy fruits in...

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The piano girl, plays her music soft, 
Her fingers they dance upon the keys, 
Her tutor often did scoff,
As she played her feelings with ease,...

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This pathway is doubly dangerous
That one who cuts my stitches
A tad too short
Is the same who reaches 
Carelessly too close

To that dreadful corona mortis 
God’s...

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(Valentine's Collection)

30.

When with your beauty, I hear Angel's sing,
in love's embrace shooting stars 'cross the sky.
In passion's thrall all our love we do bring,
my Valentine,...

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