riding dreams

It's something about

dreams I can't remember

when my mind rambles on

running through hidden rhythms

looking for something greener.

It's something about

meeting you there in the mists

in-between natural conversation

and forgotten memories.

Having known you

and lost you and found you,

I still grieve those vacant hours

always harder before the rain comes.

It's something about

the way you hold my hand--

I'm sure of it--even if,

I can't remember how it felt.

Reviews

[C. Harter Amos]

What a wonderful poet you are, and what an illusive, beautiful painting of someone you love inside a dream you've given us! "I still grieve those vacant hours always harder before the rain comes" very profound and almost a seperate thought from the rest of the poem, still so well written; my favorite lines of the poem. Maybe because the whole poem strummed my heart-strings. Beautifully done, Emily. xx - Mimi.

[O!]

This is too beautiful to not put in my faves!

Oh those vacant hours!!...

Love it!

x,
O!

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

Ah, the elusiveness of dreams and special people. Wonderfully, gracefully captured.
Light,
Siddartha

[Taunt-gently]

In kind.

All the the pretty horses.

I forever-ever grieve those uncaptured moments!
One day it will all be left here, not right here but here, no not there, here.

Plagiarised...
AND
"may our bodies
remember nothing
when we're gone."

Hell yes please! :)

[Lola Nation]

I still grieve those vacant hours

what a line to envy...

such sadness and beauty!

[Collect-Eye]

wow, Emily..this touches my heart.
There's much to be learned here..from you and for you...
Very intimately and sensitively and elegantly expressed.
"It's something about
the way you hold my hand--
I'm sure of it--even if,
I can't remember what it felt like." Beautiful ending [=
for now I'm going to see this as a metaphor for your self-discovery, and maybe this group is a replacement hand until you're able to touch the hand you've lost..

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Dreams are something... funny how you can have the most intense dream then wake up and almost forget what it was about. Wonderfully written.

[mick weller]

dreams like this... don't you just wish someone would come up with a dream-remembering thing...
that dream where something important occurred... something just out of reach... half-recalled for a lifetime

[JC]

touching, visual beauty and sadness. great read. was wondering if it would be: the way you held my hand...because you go on to say you dont really remember what it felt like, so past tense.

[Wildfleour]

Dreams are so potent. I try to write them down the second I wake up because as potent as they are, they "poof" disappear in a little while!