can we envision
flying freely
the ground below us
bathed in moonlight
bright to the eye
*****
only in our dreams
can we travel to places
real and imagined
feet and heart
treading lightly
on path of our desires
*****
only in our dreams
can we realize
that nothing is
beyond us at the event horizon
sun rise and moon rise
synchronicity of soul
*****
only in our dreams
we can hold in our hands
the past, present, future
one fleeting moment
enveloped in the fabric
of time and possibilities
*****
only in our dreams
can we visit
people of our past
friends in the future
touch hands
hug conversations
*****
only in my dreams
reaching down to pick
meadow flowers colo(u)red rainbows
each blossom a velvety winged butterfly
softly brushing by my face
whispering promise of return
{two points: I may have used this imagery before; having trouble getting spacing right in wordpress}
Thanks for the kind thoughts. Sometimes, when the prompt reflects how I’m thinking/where I am in my life, the poetry almost writes it self. Other times, I play around with it more.
I’ve written a few prose pieces, but usually my mind travels into free verse territory!
Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a comment. I need to visit the other participants sites more. I tend to stop by the folks I already know, not those names new to me. I’m going to try and make more of an effort to do so!
This poem feels timeless and prophetic… I love this:
“one fleeting moment
enveloped in the fabric
of time and possibilities”
I feel your spacing woes….it didn’t interfere with reading though. Excellent poem! Visiting you from Carry On.
Thanks. So often, the Carry on Tuesday prompt reflects a situation, circumstances, or way I have been thinking, and the poetry flows easy. Other times, the words are harder to come by!
This time, I shut down my self-editor and just let the words form the poetry.
Thanks for stopping by. I’ve not been feeling well enough to visit other carry on participants’ sites, but hope to be strong enough to read and visit your site.
I’m so sorry you’re not well. Healing thoughts for you. Words will wait rest well.
Thanks for your kind words!
It’s been several weeks of strange allergic reactions (some only felt, not appearing physically) so it’s a bit like the mystery novels I love reading — looking for clues, finding the culprit(s)! I had a lot of allergies when I was younger — many I out grew or can take antihistamines for — so it feels a bit like regressing to my childhood. Most folks talk about regressing to their childhood in emotional or pyschologic terms, lol!
Oh, that can be so frustrating. Maybe it’d be worth it to have one of those allergy in tests done on your back. I had that done for my son and it was really great…no more guessing games.
I’ve heard about the back test, and was thinking of asking for that one (with certain things not included because I know I’m still allergic. Glad to hear that it helped with your son as I’ve only heard/read about it.
I’m in the process of finding an allergist. I had a series of scratch tests done on my arms when I was young. I had to wait til the bumps went down to go back for more. I remember crying alot through the whole process!
As an adult, I had the arm tests again, but that was a disaster! I told them what not to test because I knew I was allergic, and NOT to test peanuts. So, of course, the first scratch was peanuts, so everything on that arm came out as an allergy, lol!
Oh, man! Phylor, I dislike that you have to deal with allergies like this. I wish doctors/nurses would listen better, too!
I wish you much luck and healing thoughts through this process.
I loved the stanza “only in our dreams we can travel places real and unimagined”
you had by that…
beautifully expressed!