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Terry D » Sun Dec 16, 2001 11:22 am
Listen, they come of old,<BR>bold, within your first hearing, <BR>of many dreams and memories told,<BR>of starlight, in soft sky appearing.<BR>Dreams of countless lifetime,<BR>of palaces and golden thrones,<BR>where life and breath sought rhyme,<BR>and ever after, meaning shone.<BR>Wishes came true, for me and you.<BR><BR>Gaze throughout childhood’s fire, <BR>as family traveled abroad. <BR>Tales to nestle the child in quiet, <BR>imaginings, visited, slipper shod. <BR>Bard and poet ingenious, composing,<BR>resurrect ideas from sleepy heads. <BR>Rainbow colors with soft blessing,<BR>dreams, in tales, fairy led.<BR>This midnight air, fragrant with knowing,<BR>snuggles us warm in our bed.<BR>Wishes come true, for me and you.<BR><BR>Moonlight, soft to the step,<BR>visits young hearts, in turn,<BR>as magical characters leapt.<BR>What more we can learn?<BR>What memories, stood? <BR>Reflected in storied thunder,<BR>heard in childhood. <BR>Of magic and wonder, <BR>the tales often tell.<BR>Of Princess in tower<BR>and long haired Rapunzel,<BR>of children lost in forest bower,<BR>while lambs frolic on dell.<BR>Pipers, pied piping, <BR>and questioning frogs,<BR>yearning for kissing,<BR>sleeping on logs.<BR><BR><BR>Then comes fairy godmother, <BR>most likely to remain <BR>in dreamland, she hovers,<BR>within Imagination’s domain. <BR>Adventures described, reflected in mirror,<BR>belief challenges desire,<BR>in unspoken terror.<BR>What shall we face? what inspire?<BR>As our journeys we make, <BR>through tales hidden in shadows.<BR>Treasure, wealth, golden we take,<BR>insight, with care, rids us of sorrows.<BR>Wishes come true, for me and you.<BR><BR>Tales from childhood reveal <BR>a celestial pattern.<BR>Hopes, dreams, concealed,<BR>amid covers of satin.<BR>Pen your own story,<BR>don star’s glittering cape,<BR>carry memory to glory,<BR>the heavens, navigate. <BR><BR>Mythic, your questioning lifetime,<BR>respond to collective dream. <BR>We are all a paused moment, divine,<BR>stories, in starlight, it seems.<BR>Wishes came true,<BR>for me and you.<BR>