Paper Swans: Poems of Dreams


Violet Polka Dot Hero

Emerging from the darkness
The deep violet timeless places
The violet polka dot hero
Trudging through the dark places
Where the trickling rivulets of water gathers
Into whirling violet puddles
That bear the gift of moonlight
And the amber waves of mercury lights
Where the Mad Hatter dances with the moon
And the violet polka dot hero
Tips his felt hat to the White Rabbit
And the electric harvest moon above
And to the quaint timeless madness of love.

Heart-shaped tear drops fall
From the violet polka dot hero
Into the puddles below
They fall like shooting stars
And reflect in the amber light
As pennies in a wishing well
That melt in the cold glare
Of amber mercury light that drips down
And gathers in quick silver pools that
Traps the violet polka dot hero
As a fly stuck in amber
Or a venus-fly trap that snares
The violet polka dot hero who dances alone.

Paper Swans

locked away in closets,
with uncertain fluorescent lights,
the virgin minds are infibulated,
with a deluge of facts,
and a raft of paper.

folded notes float across the room,
like paper swans on a pond,
dreams drift through an open window,
like the autumn leaves,
and fall to the ground just the same.

autumn dreams of floating down,
a stream on a paper raft,
and circled by paper swans,
where autumn leaves are lily pads,
and fluorescent lights are flowers.

a loud bullfrog voice awakens you,
as reality rushes up,
like the waterfalls ahead,
and paper swans are crushed on the rocks,
beneath a teacher's feet.

 

 


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