Midnight in the Forest of Dreams

Midnight‚
My forest of dreams...
Movement all around
But only in sound,
For nothing is seen...

Ahead‚
Whispers of footsteps...
Something new has come
To my eternal forest,
Someone else...

Starlight‚
In borealis curtains...
Through the black boles
Of silver-leaved trees,
Reveals a glimpse to me...

Beauty‚
In moonlight framed...
She turns at my approach
And without a word spoken,
I welcome her to my heart.

© 1992, Aaron Brown

Holly

I bask in the warm glow from the cascading torrents of captured summer sunlight framing these ice-blue diamond portals coolly gazing upon the secrets of my existence. Her smile lights the way as she drifts serenely along these dusty corridors past rooms long unused and forgotten within the depths of my heart. She lightly treads the stairwell spiraling upward toward this high and lonely room where I sit and gaze back into those crystalline windows reflecting the spirit within her. She bears with her the keys to open the rusted locks holding closed these doors leading to the secret springs from which flow the currents that become the river of my soul. © 1992, Aaron Brown

Guinevere

To gaze upon you
is to see the drunken spirit
of summer's golden glory ablaze
This cascading sunlit radiance
ignites endless skyborne fires
after serenity raining

To listen to you
is to hear joyous chorals
from spring's laughing resurgence
These dulcet angels' harmonies
compose a cappella themes
from life's rising voices

To breathe deep of you
is to smell subtle fragrances
from autumn's perpetual change
These earthy russet undertones
return forgotten memories
of yesterday dreaming

To taste lite of you
is to drink cold clear waters
from winter's last flowing stream
These icily refreshing draughts
laced with subtle teasing spices
from life's future vintages

To touch upon you
is to feel the complex tapestry
of years woven by our fated hands
This silk-smooth living thread
weft with coarse grey wool
after experience living

© 1992, Aaron Brown