Friday, August 09, 2002

Poem - A Flying Dream

A Flying Dream

after a flying dream by clare mc’carroll

Aug 09.02


those gossamer wings beating quietly

to the rhythm of my heart

a nebulous bird weaves silently across my mind

in the centre good and sad melded

whereon imagination takes flight

held softly in the grip of those vibrant flapping colours

coalescing and metamorphisising

into something mythological

part feng-huang

yin and yang expanding and contracting

to the beat of wings

part Gamayun

teasing me with myopic glimpses of paradise

part owl

picking randomly at my life blood

unprotected in the dark of night

I swoop down to the tactile dimension

where the soothing valleys of the cool fabric

provide a safe perch to rest on my flight

……through those threads of fancy

……a magic cloak brought to life

bestowing the wings of a flying dream

to free the possessor

from this monochrome existence