Daydreams



Daydreams
Do you ever wonder where daydreams go
They seem to vanish in the daylight glow
Perhaps to die in the conscious flow
Or, do they strive to somehow grow

Maybe they’re only sleeping on the wind
To reappear in a future nocturnal tale
Caught and twisted in some nightmarish gin
To frighten you beyond the pale.

But on a warm summer day
When all such thoughts are evanescent
With an airiness so light and gay
They’re often filled with lovely sentiment

This is something so serene
You marvel at its magic
You are moved to ecstasy
It’s seldom very tragic

There’s something about a daydream
That’s different from a dream
You can shape it to your scheme
You can alter its varied stream

But often in the dark
You are captive to the plight
Sometimes murky sometimes stark
A dream is always far from light

So you know where daydreams go
They escape into the dusky glow
They morph in subconscious flow
Where they survive and grow

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Written on November 01, 2015

Submitted by aerrol24 on August 17, 2023

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Scheme XAAAA XBXB CDCD XEXE FFFF GHGH AAAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 941
Words 175
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

allan brunmier

Circumstances were that in my twenties I gave up ambition to write shortly after military service. Started writing again only six years ago when I wrote elegy for my friend Gary Schaffer who tragically died at the young age of 48. more…

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