Shades of Dreams & Destiny’s Design

Shades of Dreams & Destiny’s Design

I don’t know what my dreams are anymore

trampled by so many on life’s dusty floor;

visions once danced in my heart

pastel-hued transparencies

of what may be

rippled

rippled

rippled

on the mirror of my soul

liquid hopes that flowed

like mercurial waters

kiss bare ankles….

… but rose no further;

reverberations

echoed

across the surrealistic canvas

of my dreams

destiny dyed rainbow-shades into one….

shadows cast images into a dark intermission

even time abandoned me

to reruns that never end;

jasmine scented breezes

died in silent sighs

stale incense

spreads

over smoky dreams

now dancing in dust-motes

with faded crystal shards…..

I don’t know what my dreams are anymore

trampled by so many on life’s dusty floor;

sharonlee©

Fractured Clarity

Fractured Clarity

gazing

through the weekend window

scenery blurred in shadowed haze

society’s harsh edges

faded to grey…

I saw mirrors....

mirrors upon mirrors...

suspended before my eyes...

each revealing a different image....

images that blurred

and changed before my startled cries....

my eyes brim with tears

and carry in them

 a melancholy that is unfathomable....

I find myself

hurtling

chaotically

down a labyrinthine tunnel

of veiled complexities…

entering the twilight zone

of my existence

a realm of deep profundity

I have never dared

to probe…

thoughts profound

in their simplicity

chant a primal mantra

too intense for my soul

to grasp….

debilitating reasoning

encumbers free thought

as all prior knowledge

disintegrates

into meaningless

echoes

under the onslaught

of such philosophical abstrusity …

I hear the very universe

hold its breath

willing me to seize

a shard of fractured clarity

almost daring me to run with it

to the end of time…

but clarity drifts

in obscure whispers

forever

beyond my perception

a profound premise

forever beyond

my mind…..

sharonlee©

3/9/2011

 9:50 PM

Twilight-Silhouettes

Twilight-Silhouettes

late afternoon

shadows

lured me

out onto the veranda…

I sat with coffee

and sighed

the spring sun

drifted

behind trees & rooftops

a soft light

clinging

to the last shreds of day…

I gazed

in silence

as graduating

shades

shifted

into muted

twilight-silhouettes …

a breeze teased

the tress

- coconut fronds

dancing

with rustling grace…

a swirling mass

of cloud-colors

swept

across the darkening sky

a hint of rain

infused the air

as I sat in coffee-scented

silence

and almost

…. almost

cried….

sharonlee©

4-Sep-11