One of my favorite poetry things is pushing past the limits of reality. This can be mythic or folklore themes or even just metaphoric clichés. I like the freedom of open boundaries. The colors and expressions always seem sharper and clearer. Even if talking of darkness or mist. So here are three poems that make me happy in that way.
Mystic Passage
I want to walk with fairies
in dappled moonlight;
to ride upon a firefly
into a starlit summer night.
To watch the water nymphs
across the ripples skip;
to hear an elfin song
slide 'cross a pure white lip.
Oh, to listen to Pan
as he crescendos on his pipe,
to know if his music
is worth half the hype.
To see myth and legend
hand in hand upon the beach
is a wondrous dream
most writer's long to reach.
So tell me, when the world
is rife with unicorn musk,
into this golden land,
is there a passage at dusk?
A Knight to Remember
Guinevere was a queen
regal, beauteous, fair.
No breeze of impropriety
ever mussed her hair.
Then Lancelot of France,
came and he found her
and when she least expected
the knight had closed around her.
She surely never knew,
on that misty spring morn,
with that warm embrace
a legend would be born.
Be Assured
A lot of rain,
it's too wet to plow.
The fox is in the hen house
just 'bout now
The wolf is at the door
with a greedy grin.
The wife is mad
just like a wet hen.
Never know what
the day will bring.
Sure as Hell
it's always something.