Visions In My Waking Dreams

free verse

"Visions In My Waking Dreams"


I wander barefoot in a summer forest
under swaying yellow-green canopies.
Leaf breezes tickle me. Embrace me.
Whispering trees, their love-notes comfort me.

While meandering through a floral field
covered with ladybugs and butterflies,
I inhale the multi-colored fragrances.

I tip-toe in cool grasses
and clover beds, teasing working bees.
I admit to talking to birds,
expressing gratitude for their feathered songs.

Sun sends healing to warm these aging bones.
Moving clouds remind me of childhood games
guessing shapes and making up sky-stories.

My spirit drums to the rhythm
of Gaia's heart beat.
I dance to the images of flitting
dragonflies across beds of water lilies.

Nighttime's scattered sky-sparks
and a climbing white Super Moon
invite me to explore galaxy secrets
and question Universe mysteries.
My communion with the Star People.

Journal pages are filled with inked memories.
There among my writings of waking dreams,
I scripted thanks to the landowners and laborers,
young and centuries-old fairies
gardening for those who "see",
and spreading mischief among the unbelievers.






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