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Open Poetry #43

More Than a Dream

scoff
Member

since 2008-07-04

Posts 71
Georgia

0 posted 2008-07-10 07:17 PM

Dawn's breaking betrays
a brazen haze
where white clouds beguile,
and in a while
burnt sunshine unveils
enormous swales,
the wind beach-driven,
land riven in two.

So I mark the time
in endless rhyme,
the syncopated patter
of expiring matter,
but cold echoes return
until I yearn
for release
and, oh, sweet peace.

When sunset arrives,
two different lives
lead back to discover
a familiar lover.
Watch as shadows fly
into the reaching night,
into the dusk,
the hollow husk
of the dying day.

If you came back to stay,
what would I say
to you, of dreams shared
or how we fared
apart? Where to start?

How do I explain
the emotion,
a roiling, turbulent ocean
surrounding me,
pulling me,
drowning me
in time irretrievably lost,
a frightful cost to have paid?
If only you had stayed
I might have found myself again.

But you're gone,
and I'm here all alone.
So I sing this sad song
'though I know that it's wrong
to hold on
to a world that can never be.
Still I want to believe,
together, our lives had meaning
more than a dream.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2008-07-10 07:44 PM

Nice writing...James

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

2 posted 2008-07-10 07:45 PM

"When sunset arrives,
two different lives
lead back to discover
a familiar lover.
Watch as shadows fly
into the reaching night,
into the dusk,
the hollow husk
of the dying day.

If you came back to stay,
what would I say
to you, of dreams shared
or how we fared
apart? Where to start?"

this was my favorite part...really enjoyed this

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

3 posted 2008-07-10 07:58 PM

Lovely cadence to this one...sweetly touching.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

4 posted 2008-07-10 11:29 PM

I am so enjoying your poetry!
Glad you're here, scoff~

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2008-07-11 12:53 PM

I enjoy your poetry as well, scoff.
Ida

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