DREAMSCAPE

Unlike my work today, much of my earlier poetry was in rhyming verse, like this short poem below, that I wrote in 1973.


DREAMSCAPE
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Into the silent shimmering sphere I wandered,
and saw the thousand stars that lined the walls.
I watched the flickering candles dripping silver,
that falling
turned into crystal balls:
flashing vivid shafts to paint the rainbow
that sliced across the liquid atmosphere;
and in the time it took me to remember
from whence I came, the image disappeared,
but it lingered on the tips of my fingers
as these words
that I have written here.


Lakeside9, december, 1973