Tag: the dreaming

  • waiting on perfect

    cinnamon the kiss
    you never give
    as we lean over
    café tables at
    last night's dream
    waiting on perfect
  • Half-penny thoughts — 30nov25

    Sometimes dreams are just dreams. I get it — if all of our dreams were always meaningful, insightful and future-seeing, we’d put all of the oneiromancers out there out of business. Or give them panic attacks when we call them in to join us in the dreaming to help interpret and…

    Whatever.

    But there are dreams and the are Dreams. The proper noun versions demand you pay attention to their contents, which the other ones might linger on the fringes of memory until the morning fog burns off (if your lucky). And that’s only if they are particularly good or bad.

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  • unimagine

    i unimagine shared madness
    wrapped of kohl eyes twinned
    and mirroring the within
    unimagine a phantom recollect
    of promises bound in lace

    another madness, another dream
    another unworthy

    we ghost nighttime streets
    cobbled in maritime fog
    forgetting unimagined
    shared madness together for
    a dreaming winterlong
  • all that remains

    of a passion felled
    on burning leaves
    and smeared scarlet
    of lipstick from
    mouth to cheek;

    for ruins remaining
    of waiting at
    flint-skied piers
    in the everlast of dusk
  • forgotten

    phantom me
    slipping the edge
    promises knotted in lace
    waiting to be undone

    i was that woman
    once

    but you have forgotten
  • dirges

    a dreaming of you
    and shadowfell in
    the forgetting at wake
    they sang love dirges
    in the fading away
    slipping umbral
    of fingers slight

    the better suture
    my lips tight
  • coil lies barren

    shuffling off & cutting ties
    gone to drift on pale winds
    clutching at fragments only
    to toss useless scraps away

    4 u c —
    i realize this coil lies barren &
    there is only death & dream
    this debt is beyond counting
    and all that is left is
    to serve out my time

    i slip
    an ophelia amongst the reeds
    waiting for a mercy kiss
    to set me free
  • fantasy tale

    Photo by Paul Bill on Unsplash
    though she was no virgin
    and he no unicorn,
    he rested his head in her lap
    and visioned their journey
    riding across still waters in
    the shimmer of dream
  • night skin you, day skin you

    night skin you, day skin you

    a dream of
    night skin you & day skin you
    crawling from the barrows
    to give to hold, drinking you in
    before the everblind

    leave me to slumber at
    the foot of your altar
    with peekaboo sunshine
    warming the empty of eye
    let this mantic fade from view

    a nightmare of
    night skin you & day skin you
    crawling from make-dust
    from the depths of our youth
  • letters

    having earned
    my place in oblivion
    i fold up my dreams
    with their creases
    and worn out folds
    faded blue lines and
    penciled words
    and send them
    to those swift waters
    running under
    a creaking old bridge