POETRY CORNER: Myth-Realm
Myth-Realm
2-6-01
The misty myth-realm
that is mired in mystery
Haunts my dreams
in the darkness of day.
Sunlight slivers down
slipping away swiftly,
Then tangled twilight
twists its way into night
And murky moonlight
makes my dreams seem real.
Dragons mount up
on dreaded wings of death;
Flaming fire leaps
from their throats,
Their harrowing screams
fill my heart with horror.
Then Gryphons glide
on wings of grace
Across the blue-black sky,
their bodies bathed in starlight.
Frolicking through my fears
the gentle Pegasus in flight
Casts out my terror,
tossing her tangled mane
And crying out a challenge;
she calls me to come
Soar across the sky
touch the stars of light.
Far up I fly,
into the faintly lit constellations.
Dancing in the dark
I drink from the Dippers,
And I hunt with Orion,
but all too soon, I must head home.
Then I laugh out loud
for letting
My imagination
make me so afraid at first.
The clouds part, cut
away by starlight, casting
Away the mysterious
myth-realm of my dreams.
Reality rises out of the night
I re-awaken to face the morning.