As if in Dreams…
As if in dreams,
I held your hand
And followed you
To wonderland,
Back to the spring
In mountains grand
Where sages taught
And emperors planned
And artists wrought
Their signs in sand.
Your love touched me
With words unplanned
And now I ache
My heart expand
To fill the space
Between us spanned,
Inspired by breath
The bodhi fanned
To wake from dreams
And understand.
—okei
This poem went through so many revisions. Thanks to Karol & Arjuna for bearing with me through them all, and giving generous feedback. I only hope this version is at least as good as the previous ones.
Painting: “La Dame A La Licorne” by Armand Point
As if in Dreams (old-version)
ReplyDeleteAs if in dreams,
I held your hand
And followed you
To wonderland,
Where sages taught
And emperors planned
And artists wrought
Their signs in sand.
As if in dreams
I cupped your hand
And drank the source
In mountains grand,
With yearning ache
My heart expand
To fill the space
Between us spanned.
As if in dreams
I kissed your hand
And melted heaven
To understand
What joyful fate
To sail unplanned
That fragrant breath
The bodhi fanned.
This poem was initially meant to christen http://asifindreams.tumblr.com where I'll be posting dhamma talks and spiritual stuff in future. But the poem out-grew its original intention, and become something quite different — much more like the poetry and quotations on my other site http://karmice.tumblr.com — devoted to beauty!
Jon said: So often spiritual love and desire is reflected in poems of romance and human yearning . . .
Karol said: Wow... Right on and well done So much better than the first drafts. which I apologize for nit picking into oblivion Don't change a word of this one.. C'est Magnifique!!!
As if in Dreams (even-earlier-version)
As if in dreams,
I held your hand
And followed you
To wonderland
Back to the spring
In mountains grand
Where Buddha’s words
Like grains of sand
Slipped through our grasp
To understand
But in their wake
We sailed unplanned
The fragrant breath
The bodhi fanned
To that far shore
Forever more,
Where hearts are free
And I am thee.
As if in Dreams (earliest-version)
As if in dreams,
I held your hand
And followed you
To wonderland
Back to the spring
In mountains grand
Where Buddha wrote
In grains of sand.
Your love touched me
With words unplanned
And now I ache
To understand
That fragrant breath
The bodhi fanned.
Arjuna said: A very very beautiful poem, thank you okei.