"Phantasmagoria" by Dave HartYou gaze silently <br />and stare squinting <br />through your stained glass panes. <br />Now pulling aside <br />sapphire drapes <br />of flowing somber samite <br />Replete with glowing organdy <br />You gaze out. <br /><br />Lo, a lazy mesmerized <br />quixotic moon-- <br />blithely blows kisses, <br />wryly winks <br />and coyly smiles. <br /><br />Yea, a light seesaw of a day <br />of ecstasy and spritely delight-- <br /> now wanes to a quiet evening tune. <br /><br /> II <br /> Transfixed you <br />muse --attent through moist <br /> window panes. <br /><br /> And now enter the past pains <br /> through <br /> a flowing Rorschach panorama <br /> of fluid specters-- <br /><br />a pentimento painting <br /> of myriad serpentine days <br /> metamorphosing <br />into mellifluous mellowing nights. <br /><br /> Now mirthful, <br />this moon merrily <br />mills reticent <br />clouds in a star <br />clustered plight. <br /><br />The meeting with Morpheus... <br />--wondering of his mood-- <br />cheery and cherry, <br /> one hopes. <br /><br /> III <br /><br />In the soft security <br /> of your pliant bed-- <br />a weary cheek cradled <br /> in thoughts of this <br />day now blithely tread-- <br /><br />a voice and vision from the past-- <br /> "night night <br /> nighty nite <br /> sleep tight". <br /><br /> IV <br /> Dreaming.. <br /> in a dream <br /><br />Floating in the night skyscape <br />. . a phantasmagoria <br /> of sensual sights and sounds. . <br /><br /> riding in a catamaran of gilded silk. . <br />over the still quiet town. <br /><br />There's the tailor's shop, <br />the market place, <br />and the gurgling fountains of the park. <br /><br />On to other lands afar. . <br />the Taj Mahal. . <br />the Great Wall of China <br />the winged maneuvers of a lark <br /><br /> V <br />the remainder of this poem, see: <br /><a class="link" rel="nofollow" href="http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?poemnumber=752585&sitename=hart&poemoffset=0&displaypoem=t&item=poetry">http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?poemnumber=752585&sitename=hart&poemoffset=0&displaypoem=t&item=poetry</a>
