Poem - The Lake of Dreams
I hurry home
I hurry to bed
I hurry to sleep
Hurry hurry hurry
To dream of you on satin silk clouds
in shades of white and pink and red
your cake layered gown
virgin white petticoat pink and scarlet red
layers to slice and segregate
on the table of desire
as I take only the crumb petals that fall
carelessly from your hand
to sustain me on my self imposed exile
marooned on my own isle of loneliness
I gaze on your image reflected on the still waters
Of the lake of dreams
The soft breeze flexes your face
As you smile at me
Pout at me
Scowl at me
And just then and now
A little tongue
Scampers mouse like
Over the ripples of your lips
Something to try and catch
Me the cat with sunglasses
Seeking your soul in silent sunlight
For a touch of tongues leads to the ingestion of saliva
Your seed growing in me
As surely as mine
Do you dream of me
As I dream of you
Am I hero or criminal
For stealing your love
Is my photo near your heart
Or is my head impaled on the spike of the gate
Leading to nightmare
Beside that black road I travel
Stepping gingerly around the holes in my dream
Where I might fall to reality
A piece of the scarlet red of your gown
Nailed to the door of an anteroom in my mind
Your body on my rack
As we share the torture
Of living apart
Prisoners in the arms of others
Meeting only in dreams
The memory from the physical realm
Fading with each passing year
The forgotten scars
The forgotten contours of our bodies
Fade as memories turn to dust
Dust forming deserts shifting and changing
As in my dreams I search for you
And find only vague lumps and clumps
Where once your body lay
You in your rainbow cake dress
Tempting me to break my vows of celibacy
I am wedded to normality
And from there the red devil in the night
Scorns me for my temerity
Berates me for entering the place of dreams
Fully clothed and without desire
Desire desire
Desire of you kept high up in the house of dreams
Somewhere our children will never reach
As you and I walk the years
From far behind us the rhythmic patter of little feet
Grows louder and louder until they are but a faint rumble
Far away in distant dreams
Since there the fantasies from our pasts and futures are played out
Walk with me to this hidden place
Where the tinges of red and black denote anarchy
Let us abandon our individuality
And become as one joined in totality
Let us float off into the moonrise
From which there is no escape
Except down into the whirlpool of mediocrity
Or becalmed in a mundane existence
Oh the tangy taste of dreams so bright in my brain
Carry me through the colourless day
So I may walk once again in the grandeur of your hue
And lick the taste of colour from your fingers
As I hurry to meet you in the lake of dreams
Whence we all were born
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Comments
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on January 05, 2013:
oh Helen such a lovely comment thanks very much.. :-)
Helen Lewis from Florida on January 04, 2013:
Luscious, lustful, lavish, longing...described here perfectly, thanks for sharing! :-) Helen
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on December 03, 2011:
Hey Nicky... thank you very much for the very kind
comment... :-)
Nicky Page from Indiana on December 02, 2011:
Hi Drax, outstanding poetic art. I'm glad I stumbled upon this one. Voted up.
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on November 15, 2011:
Deborah.. thanks you for the nice comment, there are about 140 here on Hubpages and some here http://irishpoet.blogspot.com/ and here http://www.poet.ie/ and here https://www.facebook.com/DraxThePoet :-)
Deborah Brooks-Langford on November 13, 2011:
wow this really had me going.. Thanks so much for writing and sharing such a lovely awesome poem.. I want to read more..
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on October 08, 2011:
Hi Sligobay... thanks very much for the great comment, there is a bit of blood sweat and tears in this one... :-)
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on October 08, 2011:
Hi Tanmoy.. thank you very much for the great comment... poetry is like a muscle, the more you read and write the stronger it becomes, perhaps better perhaps not... since poetry is very subjective. I must write more poetry no matter if there is time or not. Hey cheap airline tickets are important too... :-)
Thanks again
Drax
Tanmoy Acharya on October 05, 2011:
This poem must have taken hundreds of poems before one can compose it. But then, as you write it down, it becomes the essence and extract of all those million thoughts combined into a thread.
I must say this is the work of a genius; and I have seen this type of work rarely at HubPages.
Please manage a little time to blossom more of these poems... otherwise, I can not tolerate your 'cheap airline tickets' article!
sligobay from east of the equator on October 03, 2011:
This old gem is a delicious delicacy.
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on December 03, 2010:
Hi Samiaali... thanks very much !!
samiaali on November 15, 2010:
Great poem Drax!
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on October 16, 2010:
Hi Sharon... thanks very much for that... :-)
Sharon on October 16, 2010:
Lush and liquid and oh so lovely.
I'm going to contact you so I can read more of you - so you can tell me where you might be found.
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on August 07, 2010:
@sameerk.. thanks very much for the compliment :-)
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on August 07, 2010:
@rashal05..a lake of dreams, a sea of wishes and an ocean of regret...
sameerk from India on August 07, 2010:
Awesome poem
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on August 04, 2010:
Hi George... thanks for the comment... it is often the way in love... very easily the trip can be one way...
George J Hardy from Southern New Jersey on August 04, 2010:
A solitary trip to the lake OF dreams is just that, a lake of dreams by way of a one person trip; sadly, many of us take it this way so I`ll say thanks for the adventure expressed so well. Hopefully the next trip to the lake will not be by ourselves.
CarlHester from Manchester on April 18, 2010:
you have a way with words in this poem , i like it and your imagination
Moulik Mistry from Burdwan, West Bengal, India on March 14, 2010:
Wonderful - a masterful stroke of poetry...
Aine O'Connor from Dublin on January 01, 2010:
Love this, the Dogs of Lies, and Hens, Cocks and Bantyhens :0)
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on December 21, 2009:
Thanks very much s0126phoenix...
s0126phoenix on December 21, 2009:
Enjoyed it, will read more.
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on October 04, 2009:
Hi Jennitasia & Dennis... thanks very much for the nice comments... Regards Drax..
Mike Dennis on October 01, 2009:
Lake of dreams...I love this poem very much.
Simply moving....
Jennitasia from Arkansas on September 30, 2009:
Ewww! I love it!
Iðunn on January 02, 2008:
I love this one.
des donnelly (author) from Co Tyrone.... on April 14, 2007:
thanks very much Jimmy...
Jimmy the jock from Scotland on April 14, 2007:
wow drax what more is there to say a masterpiece from the master......jimmy
