While rifling through a stack of papers the other day, I ran across a poem I’d forgotten I’d written.
A few years ago I awoke from a truly magical dream that I had to capture on paper. It spilled out through my fingers as a poem. The dream sparked a novella called “Beyond the Blue” that I’ve been working on as I have the time.
I hope to have this story completed and published in 2019. For now, the following poem is an expression of the sensuous, delicious dream that inspired a book.
I hope you like the imagery. Thank you for reading.
Enjoy.
The Living and The Eternal
I stand on a sandy beach
Surrounded by revelers, strangers
Congregating on a magic shoreline
The haze of distant firelight
Covers me in misty madness
A man in Hawaiian shirt arrives
Blows smoke toward the waves
And greets me with a smile
Taking my by the elbow, he motions
Toward a rock behind me
A mountain of granite, a wall of stone
We walk on soft sand, our feet
Padding silent as the cosmic strain
Plays itself out across the expanse
And there he sits, mysterious and still
A being from beyond the veil
He waits for me behind the boulder
Sitting beside an eternal flame
The fire of life, the fire of heartbeat
Orange tongues lap the night air
Sparks flying high to touch the heaven
That sits just above my world
Glimmering planets chill the moon
His eyes capture me, in the deepest
Pools of ocean green, I dive
He carries starry visions
In an old fedora filled with
Wonder, of joyful glittery expanses
And brilliant cosmic landscapes
His arms wrap around the heaven
He inhabits, he smiles
Tipping his hat in my direction
He pours this universal garden
Into the crevices of my barren, little world
In a sky heavy with celestial fruit
Planets dangle soft above my head
Ripe for the picking, stars like glitter
Sparkling against black velvet
A purple horizon pushes up
Mountains line the frontier
Between earth and space, he looks up
Above my head, a planet spins, swirling
An orange mist envelops us
Shrouding us in a Saturnian glow
As the two fish meet the bull
Venus dipping into Neptune’s blue waters
Swirling hands in azure depths
Kissing Poseidon’s body, merging energies
Through the glance from one eye
To another, the fullness of love between
The living and the eternal
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