Misty-eyed Morning

Elizabeth Helmich
Scene & Heard (SNH)
1 min readFeb 24, 2018
Photo by Luca Dugaro on Unsplash

I stopped to capture
a picture of the sunset’s dress
traipsing through my last dream

Wanting to rip
a small sample
from her hemline

Of too many pinks
dangling from lazily sloping trees
wishing to sip the river

Swaying
into a breeze
whispering of spring

Greens and violets leapt
up, trying to compete with the sky,
but she decided

She needed each shade
for herself, and tried them all on
as an orb-weaver

Nimbly wrapped supper
into a glistening bauble
with her forever legs

Suspending
us between days
of shifting sands

I stood, riveted with veneration
as she whooshed away, and
awoke in blurry photos

Understood
only by me

Wishing to share with you,
but some moments are best
witnessed with a misty-eyed lens

This was my last dream before waking. I’d share it with you if I could… The beautiful photo above picture is pretty darned close.

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