Babylon Dreams

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Foundation of the piece.

A lonely soul dreams of the past while looking in the mirrors of introspection.

Do you sometimes reflect on what has come and been lost, in those priceless quiet moments?

I wrote this today and slightly altered it. If you have already read it.

Salute.

Title:

Babylon Dreams 

The lone poet alone 

And old

Like a white feather

Blowing in all weathers 

From the deep Spring of emotions

To the Summer-land of devotion

Briefly landing with Autumn leaves before shattering into a millions verbs

In the Winters deep

freeze

Always remembers

Each and every December 

Before the snow 

The Greatest of all Picture Shows

When she was young 

Wild with her own truth and reason

Racing through all seasons

Urged on by

Poetic music

Aplenty

Shared with first love when she was twenty

But now always cold

She prays she remembers

How she once smiled

She looks in the mirror

Seeing how age has taken her smile away 

How life has banished her Garden of Eden filled with such things 

She remembers

Every day 

Puck lost in

Midsummer Night Dreams

King Solomon

Huckleberry Fin

Oberon

Bluebeard 

And so many 

Memorable things

She prays to the High Lords of The Faery

To rescind old age

Which has made her wary

To step into a new Babylon 

Of stories and poetry

Of muses

Confusion

Mystics and heretics

To climb hedges and ditches

Dance with angels and witches

Count gold with dwarves and elves

As they show themselves

But like every other night

With the hanging moon in sight

She knows that old magic is nearly gone

But still she dreams

 

Dreams with an indomitable heart

To wander lost

Like a lone ghost

In her new vision of Babylon 

 

(C) Copyright John Duffy