A Poet's Dreams

A Poet’s Dreams

 Of all the tributes which have been cast

Inside lost rainbows where thrives the past

Lays the best of who we are

Writers locked within a painted jar

 Which holds the words born of though

Colored stanzas buried within locked vaults

Rhymes to lessen the flow of pain

Incurred by life’s happenstance and shame

 Like regents aground along the sandy bar

Searching for the essence of who we are

Seeking a key to the outer world

We write to be freed from this swirl

 I feel the wind along the river’s edge

It sings of love I’ve soulfully pledge

To words that drifts between the seams

A captive smile to all it beams

 This fragrance from a poet’s thought

Lives forever, paid and bought

Within the currents of the streams

Contain the melodies in a poet’s dreams

 Written by:  Roland R. Ruiz

January 06, 2011