A/N: Entire collection is written for the Another Mega Prompts Challenge, writing prompts #18 – roll four six-sided die. The sum is how many entries your poetry collection should have. My rolls add up to 10, so that means 10 poems in this collection.
This particular poem is also written for the Call it Heads or Tails Challenge, 2a.1 (heads) – write in first person present tense, and for the Freeverse Poetry Boot Camp, #026 – industrious.
Blurred Dreams
1.
Dreams are the blurred image, after
the painted flowers fade away
into sleep when even the aches of my bones
cannot soak the canvas black.
But those dreams: I have a brush
and my mind, the canvas, but no skill,
no clear image to paint, save those flowers
in the frame on the hall that I count, the old servant's trick,
to quiet a restless mind. My heart
longs for other pictures, brighter pictures,
but they're all indistinguishable blurs
and simple words, because that's all I know:
the tales I've been told, the tales I've heard
and the small dose of the world I've seen
with my own eyes.