An Anthology of Dreams of Darkness and Light

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An Anthology of Dreams 1

An Anthology ofDreams

Of Darkness and Light

A Collection of Poems

By William Robert Seay, Jr.


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POEMS

Every poem I write

Is only a place I wasOr am sometimes

Sometimes oneSometimes both

Theres that that changesAnd that that wont

And poems are just a placeIn my flow


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A PEAL OF A BELL

A great bell pealsRinging at the darkest hour

Men come running to see for themselvesIf the darkness is really coming

Amidst the long shadowsCast by the dim sun

Stars change color or is it colors changingWho can tell?

Those who leave love behindNever realize the sun

Stars reflected in a poolWhose waters find their source

From a deep well

Love changes form but never substanceBeing all we feel that seems really real

Hearts together ringing like peals from a great bell

WHEN THE GREAT BELL PEALS

When the Great Bell peals


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And all colors changeLove that has become lost

Becomes a love that will always stay

The love between you and I remainsLike embers glowing from a fiery flame

Of lightning flashing brilliant bright whiteAcross the windy gray stormy sky

There will be many that remain foreverAfter the fiery flame of the change

When the Great Bell peals

Changing everything

Blowing love lostLike a cold winter blown storm

Blowing love lost eternally far awayFor now we can only dream of that day

So you and I will always remain

True love has made us the same thingAll we dream to come

Will carry us far far awayAcross the vast fields of stars

Glimmering countless in the clear skyFar away from anything but golden dawns

And eternal love that will always stay and never fade


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TANGLES

Tangles of silken strandsBlowing wild for the breeze to chase

Breaking softly on skin

Like foamy waves crashing softly on sand

Tangles of auburn and goldTangled somewhere in the night

Spreading across the bedLike a glorious halo of shining bright hair

Around her head

Tangled in the morningTangled in the moonlightTangled tangles at the dawn

Tangling all the time

A CELEBRATION FOR BREATHING

A celebration for breathingJust lazin in the sunWords with her fade

To long quiet momentsListening to the breeze


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Through the murmuring treesDoing nothing is such fun

Watching the sun go down

And all Ive done all dayIs chase things down hot wavy city streets

Cruising town on a cool July eveningLooking for a dream to ride

Bright shiny lightsIn the dark black lighted night

And all I do

Is watch the tube play its thingOr go see a friend to get entertained

Its been a long timeSince I spent a day

Doing much of anything

SOMETHINGA Poem for the Homeless

The fire pours like never ending waterOver the hazy figures

Seen faintlySo far have they strayed


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Wandering the dark streetsLooking for a flame

One figure turnsAnd the light of his stare

Burns a halo of lightningAcross the sky

No name and no meaningEmpty in the rainAlways looking

For somewhere to remainSomething that will stay

SAME TIME

As days change to nightsAnd light fades

And the hours on the clock go byI find

Im never in the same placeAt the right time


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Night hides in shadowsThe day hides in lightToo bright for my eyes

What I see is somewhere between

And I findIm never in the right place

At the same time

TURNING AROUND

Turning around to see her standing thereQuiet brown blazing hair

Golden flecksIn flaming amber

Turning around to stareInto the sparkling shineOf deep dark soft eyes

Shining mine into surprise


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Burnt auburn hair longCurling to the side

Framing beautiful amber eyes

The combining lightCoolly caught my sight

Turning around to seeA slight form dim

In the shadows of dreamsWith a lightning smile

Turning around to be dazzled byCrisp darkly curling hair

And matching twinkling eyes

WONDER

Moonlight your light shines where it mayThose strange lunar ways

Cerberus and darkly silver battlementsDrawn in painted shades

Of thoughtful pale white dreams

Piercing reflected light shinesThe better eyes to seeShadows black and deep

Before the hidden shades revealed by dawn


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Moonlight brings thoughtsOf ageless ancient mysteries

Wonderment glares in rays of ghostly white

Wonder all you pleaseThe only answer you will findIs in the dawns golden light

And the meanings each day brings

INSIDE BEHIND

Way inside my mindBehind feelings I show sharp and clear

Lie dreams hidden behindAll these normal outside things


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Dreams I hide insideDreams of darkness and lightHidden away from the sight

Of other eyes

TRAFFIC INSIDE

Wavy dim smokeHazy white light

Gray clouds melting in front of the fanCool air blowing in from the windowOn a rainy Monday summer night


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Cool breezes blowing throughThe wet leaves outside

And traffic on the rainy streetAnd traffic inside

Is slight

SNOW FALLS RARELY SOMETIMESSliding through things

That come byAnd snow

FallsRarely sometimes

The energies are all

At the same time

Dancing everywhereThey say it seemsUniversal dreams

Create reality


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WORDS SCRAWLED ON SAND

Scrawled words on sandWind blown away

Like words the wind and wavesScatter and wash away on sand

Thoughts are wind drivenScattered dreams of far places never seen

Only thoughts to have beenNew faces from some

Carnival scene of gaietyTaking away all thats so well known

Like words on windblown sandUnclear gray clouds far at seaDriving foaming white waves over the beach

Washing away wind driven wordsFrom wave rippled sand

As the tide washes in


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And wipes it all away

Dont expect words on sand to every stayLet the wind blow you far away

As the waves wash out the days

DIFFERENT ANSWERS IN CHAOS TOTHE QUESTION OF CONFUSION

Its all in plain view Im sureEveryone says so

Everyone seems to knowNo one says the same thingBut what does that show?

We all know the answersTheyre all different of course

But everyone has one

No one thinks the same thingAbout anything

So how can anything reasonably rhyme?Lost in all this chaos?


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TIME WITHOUT A SOUND

Time without a soundLike rain blowing in a strong windBlinding steel gray sheets of water

Raging against the flamesOf burning cold iceSo fiery in my eyes

Pavement hard as stoneReflecting the lightning

Shining from blazing downcast eyesAs visions fill a sun lit mind

Smoldering ruins of ageless ancient castlesLit by burning flames on a high hill by a far sea

Their black smoked towers rising highReaching tall against a clear pale sky

Eyes in the black of the star lighted nightLit with the fantastic light

Of eternity burning deep within penetrating sight


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ALL YOU CAN EVER DO

All you can ever doIs tell someone I love you

When the time is right

And your heart says you do


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SEA AND SKY

I look out over the oceanShips vague shapes at sea

How they ride so farOver something so empty

Flat of all shapeEmpty of all but waves

Do we travel so very farIn our livesTill we are simply totally surrounded

By boundless sea and sky?


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THE MOON IN WINTER

The moon and stars shine pale whiteThrough the Georgia pines

This chill bright nightAs the light shines from the frosty grassReflections from the sparkle to my eyes

Stars shine without number coveringThe clear black country sky

The cold breeze stirs chill throughWhispering brown leaves

And yellow and red left from OctoberDrift floating in the air

Screech owls howl

And mice scurry under crackling twigsAs I walk through the woods in the dark quiet night

With my thoughts and fantasies

Long lost islandsSnow white sandy tropical shores

Make up my dreamsOn this beautiful clear winter night


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MIND TURNS

Sit and think of fanciful thingsShadows of darkness

And beams of bright light

The shadows shade your mindThe shadows of night

Bring out things from a different side

You sometimes see cloudsFloating white overA day of sky blue

Till the light fadesAnd the night shadows bring

Out things from a different side

Looking at the endless starsI wonder why

My vision whirls through spaceWhile my mind twirls with time


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LEAVES ARE ONLY LEAVES BLOWNAWAY

While time turns Ill ride a fabulous windA high roaring breeze stirring every summer leaf

Blowing fluttering showers of greenIn the storms of summer

Ill ride very leaf blown high by the windTo wind down my swirling danceGently to the soft grassy groundAway from all shadows of shade

But even falling in the darkest placeMy heart has a warm inner flame

And I try to follow its glow

Reflections of the dawnFor leaves are only leaves blown away

The years of your lifeAre quite a different thing


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BETWEEN THE DARKNESS AND THELIGHT

Between the darkness and the lightWalking these twilight divided lines

Between what is wrong and what is rightBest to remember

To cling to the fire

Of the love in your heartAs the only way to lighten the mind

And the burdenOf the cross of life

And if you would shineWith the light of the fire

Of the love of your heart in your mind

Remember always that fireNeeds something to cling to for fuelIn order to continue to burn brightSo cling always to what your heart

Knows is right


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THIS MORNING

Hanging out on swings in parksGoing back and forth

Over wet clay and damp grassWaiting for the rain

But the sun shines insteadBack and forth

Going by a tree in the middleSwinging away time

In the sunshineOn a gray morning

Waiting for it to rain

And now its almost darkAnd hasnt rained all day


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ECHOES OF SHADOWS

Echoes of shadows on my mindWatching shadowy gray shapes

In the moment before dawn breaksRain bowed through glass panesAt the end of a Saturday night

I danced with her

Had a chance with herBut I just let her go byWhen she could be at my side

Instead of on my mindI dont know why

Something did not feel right

Echoes of the shadows of memories of the night

Fading away with the dawns light

NIGHT FLIGHT


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Climbing through cloudsWebs of dusky gray

Clinging to some dreaming idea

Riding spinning updraftsOf chill air in pale drawn moonlightDark blue waves on the lake below

With flashes of white crestsSparkling with a lunar twinkle

Breezing along in streaming air

Pulled by the drag of diving night hawksNinety miles an hour divingTwisted claws extended

Shrieking airWings swept back by terrific tornadic force

BelowDim in faint starlight

Owls prowl creatures in the tall amber fieldsWild cats eyes glitter prowling owls

All after any moving thing in the great grassy sweepOf the yards and meadows

TWILIGHT DIVIDED LINES

Between the darkness and the light


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Walking these twilight divided linesLove left behind and never realizes the sun

I remember

Dancing figures dimly twirlingSwirling leaping shadows

Dark forms whirling aroundThe flaming fire of their feelings

The stereo booms singing silvery songsThat echo in the dark hollows of the distance

Under the pale white summer moon

A light kiss that softly caressesYour hair so soft and fine

In the gentle touches of darknessQuiet warm summer nights spent

Talking and touchingWalking the twilight divided lines

Between the light of day and the shadows of night

Pale moonlight and clouds shining silverGray swifts sweeping in the dusky sky above us

Hearing your heart in your touch

TRAVELING SUMMER WINDS

Traveling on warmly blowing windsBreezing swiftly through the trees


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Never slowed by a thingSeeing only vague shapes blurring by

It all caught itself on the winds of a sigh

Long summer days run into such short nightsWarm winds blowing in the July dawnStir streamers of rippling green leaves

Shining golden in the morning light

It seems I spend my time these daysDreamily gazing at horizon lines

As thoughts stir the mind to make me smile

Traveling on warm winds blowingIn cool summer evenings

Traveling so far and yet never leaving

As the light fades dreams of the dayChange to dreams of the night

Traveling on cool stormy windsThat blow hard in the storms of the dark

So that the trees bend and sway in raging rainUntil the daylight hits my eyes and I awake

BETWEEN THE DARKNESS AND THELIGHT II

Shadows become images of shadeIn order to allow the stars to shine


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To give our eyes a rest from the daylightTo give our dreams a restful place to shine

Between the darkness and the light

The dark gray dusk and bright orange dawnThe abysmal blackness and lighted sight

We all wonder as we wanderAbout dreams and love and life

Shadows lay wavering dark gray under the treesTheir branches dancing in the warmth of the dawn

breeze

Shadows lie everywhere by dayAlways there is light somewhere by night

The stars and moonlightLightning and fire

There is a delicate balanceBetween the darkness and light

But sometimes it is not easy to find

ETERNAL DREAMER

Far placesFiery wandering comet tails

Tails of trails


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From the candle smokeThe smell of honey and soft wax

Sleepy at dawn

But up with the sunDown and around

Circling insideLooking for the right place to ride

Patterns and pieces of infinitySwirling around

Looking for a dream

To land in eternity

ROMANTICIZING DREAMS

I just romanticize my dreamsScheme all these schemes

Thinking how good it could be

I just romanticize my schemes


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Sunrise caught me sleepy-eyedSlow downSlow down

Catch a breath or two

Love caught me by surpriseSlow downSlow down

Catch a breath or twoFalling too fast for you

(Collaboration with Deborah Hardin)

FIRE FOR LIFE

Like a roman candle

A comet streaming across the skyExploding with a fiery trail across the stars

Competing with their light

Tracers and streamers burning


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Glowing embers falling from the skyMark the years gone by

Those who burn with a passion for all of Life

Flame foreverA light lives in their hearts

That never fades or flickers or smoldersOr dies

SOME DREAM

Some dream of the nightMakes me feel this way

Say these thingsThink thoughts that change

Some dream of the pastBrought me to this place


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Gave me somethingTo change feelings this way

Thoughts of warmth in the chill of the night

Memories to remember in the warm morning sunlightWords whispered to her

In the soft pale gray shadowy dawn

Sometimes the right words come alongSometimes nothing we say can be wrong

Some dream of the days haze

It makes everything appear so strangeCarries thoughts far away

Puts everything through changeMakes me feel what I can only try to say

BLINDED MOVINGLY

Never such a timeCertainly no such place

Dreams have never seenThoughts of such things

She sways across the roomAn expression on her face

Never before viewedOr felt in that certain different way


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Enigmas dont lastShe has something from someplace

That a million years henceThe understanding of her meaning

Should be quite obvious to seeHer eyes quite easy to readHer ways simply perceived

Reason more than likely thoughWill be blinded by her movements eternally

SOFT MOLTEN STEELListen to the music

Whispering in winter windsMelodies of cold ice

From dreams that havenever been

Feet pouncing on pavementGlaring hard from a hard lighted sunConcrete glittering way back

Behind tense eyesBeing constantly tough

Like an animal in the jungle


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Wherever he runs nothing leaves alone

Run him a corner to hide intoNip his heels

Till he turns and snarlsAnd escapes in a blur and flash of eyes

Of soft molten steel

LOOK

Time comes around to begin againAt the end of every endless end


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Look at her eyesBlue like a clear autumn sky

Flecked green like spring leaves

Look in her eyesAll the time

Dont know what Im looking forAll I get is a shimmering smile

Time comes around to begin againLook at the time its early still

Look in her eyesThey reflect the gentle brightness

She brings to my life

SHADOWS AND WAVERING FLAMES

All these vague thingsShadows and wavering candle flames


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Burning the sky out of nightLeaving white stars dimly twinkling behind

Faintly I can see

All these vague thingsUnclear melodies tinkling

Like swirling bells ringing in the rain

Watching the night turn dawn grayAnother night gone

And the shadows of candle flames fade

COME TO YOU

When you shine like Eldest Brother SunAnd are free

Then come to you as I come to meCome to me as I come to you

For you and I are but the same thing

When all our past is but a dreamAnd our future yet to be

Then come to you as I come to me

When all hearts are whole once moreAnd all pain is no more

Then come to youAs I come to me


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When Peace on earth becomes your heartsreality

Come to me

As I come to youWith love for all the loveWe can truly Be

SAY THINGS

Say things softly in the shadows of tall trees

Their leaves glittering silvery under

A chill clouded crescent autumn moonWhile I watch your reflection shimmering in the

Ripples of the wind stirred deep blue dark pool

Say all those things you so very much mean to me

Shadowy next to me in the soft darkness

The water dark gray and blue

Shining wavy silvery mirrors of youUnder the straight steep sides of the banks

At the sandy shoreline


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Your eyes say things

Glinting in the dark

Reflected in the water with the bright pale moon

Bright sparkling eyesGleaming with twinkles of silvery light

Reflections of starlight way above

On this chill fall night talking to you quietly

In the deep dark shadows of tall trees

Listening to you say things by the stream side

Say things with a gentle smile

Your eyes a mirror of the light you light in mine.

ETERNAL DREAMER

Far places

Fiery wandering comet tails

Tails of trailsFrom the candle smoke

The smell of honeysuckle and soft wax

Sleepy at dawn

But up with the sun

Down and around circling inside

Looking for the right feeling to ride

Patterns and pieces of infinity swirling around

Looking for a dream to land in eternity


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Sometimes empty spacesNever reached by anyone

When every journey is over

There is always time to look backThen look ahead

And start another one

The preceding work is copyright 2009 by William

Robert Seay, Jr.

All rights reserved.


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