This week’s wild nightlife…
Cool showers to ease my sleep
Dreams soothed by smooth sheets
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
This week’s wild nightlife…
Cool showers to ease my sleep
Dreams soothed by smooth sheets
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://nopenotpam.com/2022/08/14/a-letter-a-week-t/
We’re at Letter T…click the link above for more info and join in! I’ve used the host-author’s drawing and her 5 prompt words: Tropics, Thrill, Tactical, Tempt, Toucan
A tactical decision
Waiting till he’d been retired
For years before writing to him
Thinking his fan mail would
Have diminished…increasing
Her chance of a reply
How thrilled she been, a child
He, handsome cowboy star…
~
Married, divorced, disillusioned, but
Her love for hero never waned…
~
Receiving brief cordial
Response she was tempted
To empty bank account
Board a plane, meet him
She knew he lived in
Eden-like tropics with wife
Of many decades
~
The trip was doomed…his city
Was hot, humid, crowded with
Tourists… she was irrational
Imagining he’d actually see her…
~
She wept entire flight home
Had counted on him being
The image heart clutched…
Would it have been so
Inappropriate to enjoy
A short conversation?
In truth, she’d hoped for
A replacement father…
~
But hero spoke
Through closed door
Pretending to be the butler…
~
Now she sat in shadowed room
A world far from his paradise…
He’d written second letter
Words lacking coherence
It lay in drawer with toucan
Pin, souvenir of fated journey…
The media announced
He’d died…likely suffered
Dementia a long time…
Some dreams are best
Kept locked in heart
Pristine…
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
Silver coin Full Moon
Waiting to be spent on dreams
Promises, no less
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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/07/26/three-things-challenge-m36/
Prompt words: desire, option, share
Options to share heart…
Bits revealed from distant Past
Desire’s unburnt fire
Embers, ash…discarded dreams
Faith which anchors, holds soul true
Gems offered as gift
Depend on recipient
So, can I trust you?
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2022/07/23/weekend-writing-prompt-269-variation/
There’s little variation
In the recurring dreams
Same theme—madness
They’re not dreams
No…nightmares
Peopled by same cast
Of characters which
Brought, fostered
Chaos, dysfunction—
All being heirs to a
Strain of this insanity—
How many baskets, buckets
Would it take to fill up bitter
Agony, hatred…carry it away—
I did not imagine
Everything that happened
Just because they don’t
Remember…doesn’t mean
I’m crazy
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
Summer, season of longer days’ hopes, unspent dreams to squander
Like shiny coins filling tall glass jar of imagination
Summer, what can I buy to keep you close when Time’s thief draws near?
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
Photo credit Darrell Whiley
If ever blue
Would stir, sway
Call heart away
It would be you…who
Within froth prismatic
Makes soul ecstatic…
Eyes blind to city
Though backdrop’s pretty
I breathe air, lose care
Embrace primal sound
Of water’s movement
Childlike amusement
In dizzying surround…
Let it take me
To far other place
And find your face
Young once more…where
Love’s dreams restore
Miraculously
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/photo-challenge-423/