Saturday, 20 August 2016

Was I dreaming?


Was I dreaming?
Hearing children's laughter
The lap of water on the shore
Seagulls hovering overhead

 Or unwinding?
From Morpheus's cruel spell
Splash of anchor, rattle of chain
Now rushing, gushing through my mind

 Clear blue skies
You leaning against me
We're both relaxed and contented
Now wrapped up in each others arms

 Was it all real?
I fear it's but a dream 
Our love story is now over
For you've left me all by myself

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25 comments:

  1. Sanaa Rizvi21 August 2016 at 02:06

    This is so touching.. so beautiful.. especially the image of leaning against each other beneath the clear blue skies.

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  2. Anonymous21 August 2016 at 03:23

    This is heart breaking. The transition from the first stanza to the second is so real and the ending makes it even more emotional.
    -HA

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  3. Anonymous21 August 2016 at 04:30

    Poignant, gentle, sad... lovely Robin.

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  4. Jae Rose21 August 2016 at 04:31

    Those chains echo through this poem..i hope it was once real..and that it can be seen again in dreams

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  5. Mary21 August 2016 at 05:59

    Ah...to have a beautiful dream and then to have it end is very sad. A moving write here, Robin.

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  6. Julian21 August 2016 at 06:32

    The happiness of the dream with the contrasting sad end. Good use of words to describe this.

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  7. Anonymous21 August 2016 at 06:44

    that brilliant second verse carries the impact of the poem to its sad finale

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  8. Susan21 August 2016 at 07:38

    Does it matter? So vivid! I'm enriched that you wrapped it up and shared it in a poem.

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  9. brudberg21 August 2016 at 08:13

    I envy you the sweetness of the dreams... the only thing that's better with a nightmare is that I'm happier to be awake... lovely written

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  10. Sumana Roy21 August 2016 at 08:22

    poignant and so beautiful...

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  11. Gillena Cox21 August 2016 at 08:44

    this is quite a tease both for writer and reader.

    Thanks for dropping in at my Sunday Lime today, Robin

    much love...

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  12. Sherry Blue Sky21 August 2016 at 09:13

    This pings at my heart, Robin. But I believe a love like that never dies and is still going on, on either side of the veil.

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  13. Audrey Howitt aka Divalounger21 August 2016 at 11:39

    These can be some of the most heartfelt times in our lives I think--feeling love and its loss--beautifully penned!

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  14. Anonymous21 August 2016 at 13:35

    Takes one away. Thank you for this

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  15. Magaly Guerrero21 August 2016 at 14:36

    Your poem does such a good job at describing the sense of loss that fills the heart after we wake up from a place we love, with someone we love... to discover that all is now gone. Such longing...

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  16. Purba chakraborty21 August 2016 at 14:40

    This is so touching. Beautifully written.

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  17. Wendy Bourke21 August 2016 at 17:36

    Very poignant - the sense of loss: palpable.

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  18. Dr. Pearl Ketover Prilik (PKP)21 August 2016 at 18:31

    Yes agree with Wendy who seemed to write precisely what I had in mind. A palpable sense of heart rending loss with the beauty intact.

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  19. Rosemary Nissen-Wade21 August 2016 at 22:03

    May all your dreams be so sweet. I like to think they are true visitations.

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  20. rallentanda22 August 2016 at 07:47

    A sad poem of loss.

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  21. Myrna R.22 August 2016 at 08:39

    This is sad. Yet I hope there is much comfort in the dreams. So nicely written.

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  22. Anonymous22 August 2016 at 22:37

    I feel for the loss, so sad. well-written :)

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  23. dsnake123 August 2016 at 08:15

    a loss, and a longing. but at least the sweet memories are still there?

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  24. Magical Mystical Teacher23 August 2016 at 10:18

    Alone at the end! That's our common fate, is it not?

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  25. humbird25 August 2016 at 07:02

    Very poignant...sometimes the dreams are so real...inspiring poem

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