Let’s play in dreams tonight among
fanciful half-drawn adventures that
reflect reality while sharing
a majestic illusion that feels slept in.
I think I’ll fly through a world
of my own making, one great
with clocks that don’t tick but
houses often dance like jumping beans
on a record player I can’t turn off.
You’ll be there – or at least
my mental image
of you – to share an expansive world
of fantasy and sweeping lands
of rolling reveries.
Let’s get lost in dreams tonight,
entranced by enchanted visions
extending before us while we share
this queen bed barely slept in.
Phillip Knight Scott | © 2019
Written for two prompts: dVerse Poetics “Your Majesty” and V.J.’s Weekly Challenge #68 “play”
Often Mumbled Musings 
Really elusive and wonderful a bit playful too, I think. Very nice. Phillip I always love all the imagery in your poetry. Love 💕 Joni
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Thanks so much Joni!
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Very cool.
I especially like the jumping beans on the record player.
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Thanks, Shawna!
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Oh, to dream… I love the wistfulness of this, and then that last line slams down the reality. Well done.
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Thanks so much!! 🙂
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You are most welcome!
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I love the fact that you share the dreams in this.
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I love all of this, but especially: “a majestic illusion that feels slept in”…and the contrast with final line’s “barely slept in”.
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Thanks 🙂
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Most welcome always 🙂
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Fantasies and dreams are a wondrous place to live in….
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So I really liked your poem today. It struck a chord, I guess they say. And in my mind I went right to a “reply poem” to yours. Not to argue the beauty of your words but to express what came to my mind as I read yours. My poetry is not as well versed as yours and I do hope you don’t find displeasure in my “reply”.
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You’re selling yourself short – you wrote an incredible poem and it was a great expansion on the theme of mine. Well done!
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“sweeping lands of rolling reveries” …sigh…oh yes. Getting lost in dreams, sleeping in…both majestic!
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Indeed they are!
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I like the playing and getting lost in dreams.
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Thanks, Frank!
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I noticed what Avia did, the repetition of “slept in” pointing out the paradox of what it is to dream: sleep must be there, but you also never felt more alive and awake. The blending of the two prompts was well done. I also had to laugh at the last line for personal reasons: we have had this brand new queen bed for months and we also still have the baby in our room in a crib. Well, she needs her sweet queenly space, I suppose, because whenever we try to sleep in our bed, she wakes up multiple times in the night. So we have decided to leave her –and that new bed– for the time being to her 11-hour beauty rest!
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Oh no! You’re being ruled by an infant!!
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Yes! And it’s the best time of my life!
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I enjoyed the whimsical nature of this piece. I thought it’s very creative and expressed well.
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