Shower Thoughts and Dream Knots

 

Shadow ships sailed across the walls and splashed into a ceiling speckled with galaxies, 

yellow constellations swirling behind clenched eyelids,

a dark sea glistening with stars both above and at your hull

 

Warm scales shifted as frigid air ripples over and under,

 clouds feathery veils across a blurred ocean  

Then you dive and dive and your hair whips in a glimmering banner and then

the sun hits the horizon

dazzling oranges and roses and crimsons paint the atmosphere while a roar shakes the wind

 

And you’re no longer in the kaleidoscope sky but the waters below

You're a mermaid, 

washing away a day of luring and love struck sailors. 

Its misting, the waves crash against the rocks 

and you watch as the sky bleeds 

and the waterfalls behind you have jagged rainbows in the last lights of day

 

Harp strings echo in lake eyes and hums thread white lily,

golden trim glimmering gently in lazy afternoon rays.

You remember milky skin and feathered eyelashes,

ruffled hair and a button nose.

The sheets are crisp and images fade

 

Smoke screens summer suns turned pink, you know, 

and it’s then the mountain eyes blink at their valleys

and the northern lights gleam in the day

The buck pranced with stars tangled in his antlers as a prince,

the doe a genteel queen with flowers blooming at her step

 

You ponder and dream in technicolor,

your universe branching and webbing something awesome

Life is hard but to filter through an imagination colored with sound,

to watch impossibles unfold...

 

and you’re no longer in the sky,

but in a