Tomorrow My Dream

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    Tomorrow My Dream

    Tomorrow my dream

    And take my heart ravished

    Tonight I lay vacant

     

    Crumbling, my mortar decayed

    It’s only the ivy that holds me

    In place

     

    Closing my eyes

    I see only your face

    Expressionless, waxen

     

    Like snuffed candle soot

    Smoking out the half-life

    Between fire and ice

     

    Counting them, and them

    More disappointed than jealous

    I didn’t need you then

     

    How did they tire

    Of induced fibrillations

    Slow burning your hips?

     

    Perfidy poses

    Arrogant, heedless

    Impervious to tears, after all

     

    Did they not see you?

    Or merely own you?

    Until simply bored with it all

     

    Enter sopranos

    Always sopranos

    Singing what never gets said

     

    Gestures to footlights

    Running mezzanine eyes

    O’er empty boxes

     

    No one arrives 

    Until after the love songs

    Leave their bathos

     

    Coloring the silence

    Beseeching applause

    His bravos echoing 

     

    Exiting now, the sopranos 

    Busily dressing

    Doors opportune avenues

     

    Filled with conveyance

    Tomorrow my dream

    Driving one-way streets.


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    tierra7 commented on Tomorrow My Dream

    10-26-2019

    It's been awhile that I read your work..and Omgosh...love them still ...stay well dear friend
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    poetry2069 commented on Tomorrow My Dream

    03-25-2012

    Great Poem, I especially liked the parts about the sopranos.
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    HarverTomsson

    03/25/2012

    Thank you poetry2069 for your read and your commentary. Harv

    ginga commented on Tomorrow My Dream

    01-26-2011

    Harver, I dare say this poem rocks my world. In that it's shrouded in its own private scene of what if, and what not, and live life to the fullest, even as the soprano sings their torch song...It's all good and glorious and exceptionally titillating. 10+ ginga
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    HarverTomsson

    01/26/2011

    i tend to go whooosh when its pedal to the metal on a one way street. thanks, Harv

    Teardrops commented on Tomorrow My Dream

    01-21-2011

    Well written the flow is wonderful . Tomorrow does anyone know what it holds ? great write Marie
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    HarverTomsson

    01/21/2011

    It is not what is known, but what is hoped that this poem is about. But you knew that. Harv

    Madelynn commented on Tomorrow My Dream

    01-21-2011

    What I love about this write, besides the sheer brilliance of the thing, is that the meaning can be conveyed as someone who has been lost(like a love) or- I read it again with the perception, that the subject had lost a piece of who they once were- Im way into that concept, since we are continually reinventing ourselves.(Im actually working on a couple poems dealing with this, now) any ways- I loved it, really deep, and poetically visual!-Maddi
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    HarverTomsson

    01/21/2011

    Thank you Maddi, a bit of a rare comment left for me, but I bet you've visited here before. I am humbled by your appreciation so stated. Harv

    Poetry is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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