Only In My Dreams ✨ (kismet)

Rhyming Quatrains in Iambic Pentameter with abab rhymes.

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  Only In My Dreams ✨

In sleepy dreams of kindred spirits wed …

it’s these I run to, chasing through the night.
Before my eyes are closed, such dreams are spread
together, heart and soul ~ in fevered flight.

Live thee, but naught lost glows from yesteryear,
when now sweet songs are sung of destiny.
What's held there in your dreams to so endear,
that you might think you cannot find in me?

“Yours is the sweetest heart,” I’ve always said …
though, needing many answers -- so, it seems.
If you should realize why joined hearts sped,
you'd have no need to run from passion’s schemes.

I’ve kept my deepest dreams for you to share …
yet, find I cannot have you all my hours;
for, you belong to one whose love’s unfair,
while I am wholly captive to your pow’rs.

Embraced in dreams, those moments we’ve held dear;
they’ve turned to fading memories, it seems.
Still, dream I must, for it is e’er so clear
M'Love … you’re mine ~ yet, only in my dreams.

Richard W. Jenkins

   © 28 Dec 2023

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Author's Note

"Scarlet Amaryllis" - a favorite photo from my Private Personal Stock"

Please, offer whatever you believe will better this piece and/or my skills. ✍🏼

Reviews

[Marie]

Oh, what a heartbreaking write! Lovers who can only be together in dreams, only then happy while life has to be lived apart and unhappily. This beautiful poem tugged at my heartstrings as I read and it is a poem which could be applied to so many 'lovers' world wide. Love the rhyming scheme and the little gems of allegory dotted here and there throughout. Your poetic pen paints a very impressive sketch of the lovers who long for togetherness and fulfillment! Poignant, yet romantic and a truly splendid write. Thank you for sharing, dear poet...

[Richard🖌]

Yes, Dear Marie 🥀

I do agree with the clear understanding essence of your sentiments regarded by the sadly fated inferences flowing ever-so painfully throughout this piece … yet, all too many online lovers can easily relate.

Thank you, Marie, for your beautifully expressed enjoyment and appreciation of this gentle, but deeply emotional piece.

With most grateful hugs to Thee! ⁓ Richard🖌

[Betty Hermelee]

Chasing spirits in your dreams, for that is all you have.... the memories of your past love with whom you had a passionate tryst and more.... melancholic mood breezes through ever beautiful word of this piece...the sweetest heart you had, but no more...only moments of reflection and in your dreams...Excellent writing and rhyme and he words just flow like a gentle stream...
Warmly, B

[Richard🖌]

Thank you, Lady Betty 🙏

For your graciously expressed compliments, praise, and words of knowing wisdom.
What you say is so genuinely true … yet, all too often the incomparably grateful memories of love's wondrously beautiful, tender imaginings, are all we have or ever shall … still, what would life be without dreams?

May your lovely dreams ever embrace you warmly! ⁓ Richard🖌

[Sunflower/Sara Kendrick]

I like your work and the photo. I had about 6 of those Amaryllises but my husband killed 3 of them with weed killer. Thanks for sharing your work with us. Sara K

[Richard🖌]

It's been my pleasure, Sara K, to share this poignantly romantic piece with you.

It's unfortunate to hear about the demise of your rare Amaryllis … still, from a few will grow many.

Thank you ever-so warmly for liking the poem and photo! ⁓ Richard🖌

[Sunflower/Sara Kendrick]

I hope many will grow but my husband loves that spraying of weed killer. Sara K

[Richard🖌]

Aw, Sara!

Ask him 🙏
"Please, Honey, direct your spray away
from my dear Amaryllis on a windy day."

[Dave]

How much reality lies in our dreams? I can't believe that I'm the only one whose soul is taunted by dreams
so unfulfilled.
Take care - Dave

[Richard🖌]

Greetings, My Fine Fellow Poet 🍷

What a deep, complex, and all-conclusive question, Dave … for, dreams are so varied, I sincerely doubt it's possible anyone has (or will have) ever completely answered it.
But, ohhh, how adventurous it truly is to explore your question's endless possibilities, and can assure you that you are definitely NOT "the only one whose soul is taunted by dreams so unfulfilled."

You take care, too! ⁓ Richard🖌

[Dave]

It's always a treat to hear from you.
T

[Lisasview]

As I read a second poem of yours dearest Richard I feel a theme and I see you have written more so I will see if that theme continues.
Deep desires once buried are so hard to find again.
I connect with so many of your words...but probably most with these..
"If you should realize why joined hearts sped,
you'd have no need to run from passion’s schemes."
I love the use of your metaphors here and always...
Lisa

[Richard🖌]

Lisa Dear 🤩

I thank you most sincere for extending your lovely presence among my pages … the delightful bouquet is wonderfully enchanting.
As you suggest; sometimes, a certain theme may, indeed, make a home and hang around until it's finally "shown the door."
Though, a like theme as the two you've read and reviewed can be found scattered here and there among my various efforts, it's rare they follow much of a succeeding pattern.

I so readily agree with and love your choice of lines, Lisa, but why would that be a surprise, eh? ; )
Thanks, Dear Lady-Poet, for keeping me company! ⁓ Richard🖌

[Lisasview]

Of course you response is causing me to smile…. Why is it that we were so lucky as to connect.
read moreOf course you response is causing me to smile…. Why is it that we were so lucky as to connect.
Life is such a mystery.
And yes that theme has turned up numerous times in your many other poems and in your wonderful book.
I always hope I can write like you…
L

[Richard🖌]

Thank you, always, for sharing more of You.
Unfortunately, the site cut the remaining portion of your comments off at "read more."

[Kim S.]

This is really amazing, And touching really.
I really enjoyed this write Richard.
Wonderful write.

[Richard🖌]

Beautifully spoken, Kim🌼

Amazingly touching, your words of praise and expressed enjoyment really inspire a bard's ever hopeful heart.

Thank you ever-so warmly, Dear Kim ⁓ Richard🖌

[DecentlyOkayWriter]

M'Love … you’re mine ~ yet, only in my dreams.

Unrequited love is such a bittersweet topic, and I love how you portrayed this, which is a very fluffy thing to say, but I do. May you have a nice rest of your day, sir.

[Richard🖌]

Yes, Dow 🌾

You'r selected line is the crux of this piece, as it brings to final climax the essence of what fated love feels like in its finality.
That you love anything about my humble efforts is gracious gratification beyond what I could have expected, but I'm keeping every word. : )

Thank you most gratefully! ⁓ Richard🖌

[Amy R]

WOW!
Something about this makes me smile yet feel so many emotions,
words can't do much justice for this piece!
"Embraced in dreams, those moments we’ve held dear;"
it carries so much feel, and I LOVE IT!!!

[Richard🖌]

WOW yourself, Amy! 🌺

What a lovely review you've blessed this ill-fated poem, with your "love" … what could be better than being so wondrously appreciated?

The line you've highlighted is among my favorite, too....
harmonious minds feel alike. : )

Hugs 'n blessings, Amy ⁓ Richard🖌

[Amy R]

That deserves to be a favorite line,
I can relate alot to it. You're welcome, twas a pleasure reading all your poems I have reviewed.
take care Richard
-Amy

[Richard🖌]

Your pleasure is mutual, Amy 🍷

[Victor D. Lopez]

This poem strikes a responsive chord as I'm sure it does for others who bear wounds that will never fully heal from unrequited love, lost love, or paths not taken. Dreams can allow ephemeral respite from the pain, but waking only heightens the sense of loss and can make even the oldest of wounds bleed anew.

This is a theme I've visited in both my fiction and poetry, though not as poignantly as presented here. Wonderful!

[Richard🖌]

It's ever-so true, Victor 🍂

What you say … as I understand that hardly anything is more painful or deeply enduring than unrequited love. Few others have recognized this piece is metaphorically about just that.

Yes, it is, indeed, a sadly bittersweet poem related to by many … fortunately, for me personally, it is a fictitious tale of woe.

Thank you, Syr, for another stellar review of my humble work! ⁓ Richard🖌

[Victor D. Lopez]

Whether based on fact of fiction, a well constructed poem can communicate with a reader vital truths about the human condition with greater impact and poignancy than prose, for me at least. It is a pleasure to read your work.

[Richard🖌]

As it is to read yours, Syr … and, I couldn't agree more.

[Poetic Beauty]

To have loved someone so deeply yet the have another “life” for whatever reason hurts the soul on a level that is almost indescribable and we often revisit and meet those lovers in our dreams

[Richard🖌]

Hi, Dear Lady-Poet 🌾

To "feel" the graciousness in your keen words of wisdom assures, ever-so deeply and truly, the enthrallment of connecting sensations with another through earnest poetic efforts.
How thrilled I am to receive your compassionate grasp of pangs derived by unrequited love.

A grateful smile of thanks 'pon thee this day! ⁓ Richard 🍀

[Poetic Beauty]

I think we all have felt those moments in our life and can relate although I have to say you wrote about this so eloquently

[Richard🖌]

It's when the heart of a true poetess or poet speaks that common words wed to stimulate eloquence.read moreIt's when the heart of a true poetess or poet speaks that common words wed to stimulate eloquence.

Thank you, Dear Poetess, for your beautiful compliment.