Flashing Forever Poem by Linda Marie Van Tassell

The moon peers through the curtain of night
which drapes the windows with star-flecked ink.
Silhouettes of shadowed branches write
poetry on the walls as I blink
and pinch the candle wick’s rising flame
to watch scribbles of smoke sign my name.

I crawl inside the layers of sleep
to be lured by the billowing loom
and fall down the back of dark so deep
that an ocean of dreams fills the room,
and I am a pearl within a shell
who's daring to dream and dreaming well.

From behind my eyes I rise unseen
and dance in flight on the shirring wind
and tip on toes across gamboled green
whose distance knows neither breach nor end.
My spirit soars and shines as ever
in winks of stars that flash forever.