The bridge of dreams
by cricketjeff on November 12, 2008. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
[A dreamlike scene where a bridge appears inside the clouds and turns into
sailing ships]
Each night inside a dream you walk with me
To lands where past and future fade away
Where everything is lost in just one day
The clouds have built a bridge across the sea
I learned to live a dream so we could be
The walkers on that road to everywhere
A perfect life that lovers seldom share
The clouds now carry us across the sea
With head upon the pillow I am free
To hold you as my own for evermore
We’ll be together on that distant shore
The clouds have built a ship to cross the sea
Each night inside a dream you walk with me
Upon the bridge of ships that’s crossed the sea
Author notes
An “echo sonnet”
A form I adapted from the kyrielle sonnet altering the rhyme scheme to an
envelope rhyme within each stanza moving to ten syllable (IP ideally) lines
each stanza finishes with the same line, or as in this case with a modified
version of the same line ending at the same rhyming word, the first line, as
with the kyrielle sonnet is also the thirteenth.
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