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The Poet's Dream

WHEN the waters of the sun
Fall on the flaming sea

When the desert rose is one
With the snow sipping bee

All that our senses now shun
Time's alchemy will free

On the coral shores of night
The ghosts of fish shall wake

And offer incense to the light
That gives them bread to break

From the singing shells with wings
An artist's eye shall peer

With violin hands for strings
And a poet's ear

Then white silence like a nun
Shall lift her long white sleeves

And shake the treasures she has spun
From dreams whose thread she weaves

From the surf of mountain caves
A billion stars shall gush

And whirl on the windward waves
Through the darkened hush

In the valley of moon trees
The glowing fruit shall sway

And rise by twos and threes
Above the cradled day

On the jungle's peaceful floor
Lion and deer shall meet

A crucifix made of ore
Between their kneeling feet

All of this and more shall be
Within that shining net

When time redeems mortality
From its mortal debt

Then magnet age shall point its north
Towards youth's eternal pole

That alpha star in the fourth
Dimension of the soul

Where love curves back in heartspace
Within its chrysalis

And gravitates the imaged face
Of the all creating this

From the light years of the past
The undeflected force

Shall bind the future fast
To God's own source

As cause and word unending
Repeat the rhythmic plan

Of universe transcending
Man's origin as man

Elizabeth Bartlett

Description
The Poet's Dream

WHEN the waters of the sun
Fall on the flaming sea

When the desert rose is one
With the snow sipping bee

All that our senses now shun
Time's alchemy will free

On the coral shores of night
The ghosts of fish shall wake

And offer incense to the light
That gives them bread to break

From the singing shells with wings
An artist's eye shall peer

With violin hands for strings
And a poet's ear

Then white silence like a nun
Shall lift her long white sleeves

And shake the treasures she has spun
From dreams whose thread she weaves

From the surf of mountain caves
A billion stars shall gush

And whirl on the windward waves
Through the darkened hush

In the valley of moon trees
The glowing fruit shall sway

And rise by twos and threes
Above the cradled day

On the jungle's peaceful floor
Lion and deer shall meet

A crucifix made of ore
Between their kneeling feet

All of this and more shall be
Within that shining net

When time redeems mortality
From its mortal debt

Then magnet age shall point its north
Towards youth's eternal pole

That alpha star in the fourth
Dimension of the soul

Where love curves back in heartspace
Within its chrysalis

And gravitates the imaged face
Of the all creating this

From the light years of the past
The undeflected force

Shall bind the future fast
To God's own source

As cause and word unending
Repeat the rhythmic plan

Of universe transcending
Man's origin as man

Elizabeth Bartlett