In A Dream



In a dream the spirit's free to break through prison walls.
Limitations hold no bars when privilege disenthralls.

In a dream the spirit's free to conduce unicorns.
Imaginations flourish when harpooning with horns.

In a dream the spirit's free to soar on angel wings.
Gravity is powerless when cinched by cosmic strings.

In a dream the spirit's free to become virtuoso.
Prodigious talents unfold when fabrications flow.

In a dream the spirit's free to defeat giant fears.
Trepidation shrinks in size when in celestial spheres.

In a dream the spirit's free to transfigure semblance.
Beauty magically appears when fantasies entrance.

In a dream the spirit's free to gratify desires.
Impediments char till ash when lust ignites the fires.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA AX BB CC DD EE FF
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 721
Words 118
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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