You've sent me heaven’s embroidered cloth
set with gold and gilded gem
blue, and rimmed with pale light
from the dreams I'd found you in.
As we conversed through endless nights
we had our time of little sleep
long until dim morning light
brought little birds to window-sing;
kindred spirits perhaps, are we
a bond so strong, one can't deny
even though we've been silent for
it has been so long…
but time is nothing, nothing here
it has been a very, very long time
yet I remember… I can still remember-
your birthday is one month after July…
I spoke of chambers within my heart
and one for you, yes, one of mine
has been emptying some of late
as time consumes it without our being
together in our old accustomed way…
Just let me say that even though
a hollowness here slowly grows
it is far from empty, you filled it well
have carried me through my darker spells
as you lightly step across my dreams.
We were torn, torn apart
and I cannot bear the losing of you
deep you're cut into my heart,
deep you're sown into my soul…
Apart so long, yet it seems
on occasion, when reflecting alone
alone in silent moods and swings
that we were together just moments ago…
then when the clock hand strikes again
and noises through the window stream
I realize it is only the ghost of you
lightly stepping across my dreams.
Author notes
Applicable Source Poem: "Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven"
by William Butler Yeats
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
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I came back to visit....sit a while and ponder....
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thanks, got me to add a few lines and do a little work near the end... at this rate in 20 years it might be some piece!
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hey! thanks for the look- you spurred me to fix the flow in a few spots... (and I'm pretending we haven't been apart for so long, and that there was no pain between the ghosts of us...)
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Ohhh wow this was fantastic!
I mean I cannot even tell you how great this was. It was... probably my personal favorite yet so far this round.
However, I felt you were telling more than showing, but that is okay. Everything else dude, you nailed it.
Excellent!
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Really nice flowing and packed with emotion. Nicely done. Good luck.
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That was beautiful. I simply loved this.
Hugs, Your Partner in Death -
Wayne, this is so pretty.
Definitely defines bitter sweet.
Hope you're well.
-Reni
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A phantom lover that steps ever so lightly in your dreams. What a beautiful thought this is. And the poem that supports it is well versed.~Suseann
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