Moon Lore Obscura

I have dreamt of you not knowing              
And in my unknowings was undone                
Who in the wrack of dreaming                
Perished in the flood                
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I stand where skies no longer rain                
And rivers flow no more to sea                
Tween the blessing and the bane                
Twixt reality and dream                
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Cross the uplands where you wander                
So too wends the darkling flow                
Breaching both gorse and heather                
As the daylight slowly goes                
                
Slow current, I seek no portage                
Lay me down and let me drown                
In the darksome reedy river                
Under grey skies, tinted brown                
                 
Come the cold pressed evening                
When glimpsed night in amber falls                
In the sunset's dying gleaming                
'cross the moor to cover all                
                 
I have spied you in the river                
Nymph-like bathing in the the stream                
Hair darkly streaming water                
Skin like moonlight's silver'd sheen                
                 
Burbling stream or your laughter                
Merry, joins the teaming flood                
Belying eyes of wisdom's daughter                
Whilst twinning tree and tender bud                
                 
Ah, stars fall and so do I                
To lilting beckon of your words                
Like music sung by sirens                
By man longing to be heard                
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Last sudden flight of Starlings                
Shocks the startled sky                
Soft twist, I breath, transforming                
As night falls in hammer blows                
That like whispers land unbounded                
Passion bent                
Look to me                  
Reverberations silent echo               
Light and shadow                
Quietness                
Ah, what color are your eyes                
Vibrations spreading, ripple -                
Stay!                
Cornered sun no longer shines            
Psyche and the box, locked away the key  
What are those dark arcanel things                
Blue likes shadows, their deeper match             
Deepest blue intimately kissed by black                
Demasked, bejeweled, star strewn                
You of stream, of dream, where shadows lie in pools                
Emotions seek to hold the wisps                
The ghost of who you are                
Rivulets, silky, streaming rivulets         
The waters flow like liquid gold                
Tracing every rich, ripe curve ~                
Caress the you I cannot hold                
Would you speak me into the water                
At last lured to river's edge               
Breath for me as I lie drowning                
In the chilling winter stream               
You fiery in the flo'               
Panther                
Ghost                  
Aurora                
Door to tomorrow                
Wakes the dawn                
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I die a thousand leagues from water                
In the sunlight's failing eye                
Drowning in your vision                
In the evening's sigh