7 hours ago
Dragonfly’s Reunion
A sea of once familiar faces merge
as she attempts to ride the rolling wave
of memories that flick the air and land
for just a moment. Spindly legs that skim
the surface fold and quickly bounce to skip
away beyond her view, a glimmer caught,
the sparkle of a prismed wing that flies
a path across the sun to disappear.
Evaporated in the glare of beams
that spread the funneled spotlight's glow
that should illuminate, instead they blind
her now, no difference between what lives
and what became the blur of what just is.
(All critiques, mild through intensive, gratefully encouraged.)
A sea of once familiar faces merge
as she attempts to ride the rolling wave
of memories that flick the air and land
for just a moment. Spindly legs that skim
the surface fold and quickly bounce to skip
away beyond her view, a glimmer caught,
the sparkle of a prismed wing that flies
a path across the sun to disappear.
Evaporated in the glare of beams
that spread the funneled spotlight's glow
that should illuminate, instead they blind
her now, no difference between what lives
and what became the blur of what just is.
(All critiques, mild through intensive, gratefully encouraged.)