Dream Time Poetry

‘tis a country girl that knows to be
in complete and utter harmony

with the wild that calls within, within,
in the dead of lonely nights
but she wakes to find the sun up high
on the crying fields.

The crying fields spread far and wide
over all her hopes and needs inside
and she traces them with hands attuned
to the fabric [...]

Mist swirls as if propelled to be
a lifelong living entity
but creation writes the story
and makes of mist a seasonal
and passing happenstance.
In comes in low and stealthily
with the mind of a criminal
intent on stealing love
and ransacking true insight
and then it disappears
as fate decrees it must
to allow the “Seek and Find”
its chance to be around.
Seek sticks close [...]

The gypsy’s fire has burnt to ash
and she has now retired
from passion’s inspiration
to dance so mindfully
to the tune of all she feels.
The rain has started falling;
pitter-patter, pit-pat-pat,
and there’s a momentary pause
before the rain is allowed
to mingle with her tears
and make them be as not.
The pause is the time between
what was and what must be
to [...]

A poem inspired by the heat of love’s betrayal