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Open Poetry #46

Live On In My Dreams

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2010-10-13 09:51 AM

The rain against my window-
Is a melancholy sound…
My book is growing boring,
And the one escape I’ve found-

Is take out a pad and pencil-
Put on the coffee pot,
Then let my mind soar backward
To the places I am not.

I think of Army barracks-
Over thirty years ago…
The muggy heat of jungles,
Of the mountains capped with snow.

Hari Krishna’s chanting-
At the airport in LA…
While comrades, dear, were dying-
More than half a world away.

I recall the coffee brewing-
On an Arizona morn…
Feeding horses, then we’d saddle-
Long before the sun was born.

The years out on the highway,
I knew they could not last.
Searching for some Holy Grail
And running from my past.

Heartbreaks, grief an anger-
Were what I left behind-
Mere mortals never can compete-
With visions of the mind.

Loneliness, and aging-
I guess go hand in hand.
For every dreamer that I know-
Wound up a lonely man.

Too late to change our courses-
No matter how we scheme,
So, I suppose our portion,
Is to live on in our dreams.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2010-10-13 12:09 PM

perhaps our dreams do live on after we are gone... and our living them regardless, gives them enough life to be passed on in some ways to those who come after

enjoyed...

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2010-10-13 04:22 PM

Not only men are dreamers
my dear Poet.

A lot of your counterparts
are, as well.

I enjoyed this, immensely. It
brought to mind many favored men,
my father, particularly.

s1nfully_1nn0c3nt
Senior Member

since 2003-10-26

Posts 1105
Watertown, NY

3 posted 2010-10-13 04:51 PM

Our Dreams - The perfect getaway.

Lovely.

-Trina.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be - LeonBloy

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

4 posted 2010-10-13 05:46 PM

"Searching for some Holy Grail
And running from my past."

every women should have a man like this
if not now, at least in her past

you're singing my song Gunslinger

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