Horrendous Attempt at Blank Verse

[ambustharp]

I mentioned in my first thread that I made an attempt at blank verse last year and utterly failed. This is that attempt:

Unknown to me, awaiting patiently
In blinder's peripheral there did sit
A midsummer's dream, just here by my side.
Amber starring into endless sapphire:
Water that is flowing over the rocks,
Trickling along, not toward oceans' tides,
Billowing waves consume the sands of time.
Sparks are nothing, vapors are meaningless,
Yet sparks ignite and set asunder all,
Vapors condense, tempests rage ever on
Or gently lull life from earth's deepest depths:

Even furthest trees can grow intertwined.


I feel that my grasp of meter is... not a grasp at all. Help?