when you doze and slumber
you drift into streets of
vagabond dreams:
street artist and soothsayers
begging for a 'dream a penny', 'five for a dollar',
buskers, who play reminiscences,
palm readers and wrinkle whisperers,
fortune tellers with smokey crystal balls,
clowns who want to make you laugh,
jokers who want to scare you witless with nightmares,
artists keen to show you up as graffiti on walls,
street-food vendors peddling food and aromas,
late-night delights down red-light lanes
roll up, roll up, and be dared
to see what the troupe of tramps
will reveal in your dream-time,
for which you have no choice:
where you go,
when you stop,
who you meet,
what unfolds,
as the script is lucid
and all locked-in to
whether you like it or not,
so open the door, take a seat, lean back
and partake what vagabond
dreams will befall on you.
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Author:
John Richard Anderson (Pseudonym) (
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Comments3
an open ended, worded frame
to encapsulate a blurred weary, portrait
of life..
(washed-out, completely black and white
is a new experience of painting for me
it conveyed, an interestingly surreal feel
to my uncultured mind)
and I like how the the central character, barely
fits the outline of Charli Chaplin, which adds
a sarcastic tone with its potential
of morbid comic relief
like saying:
'how absurd: is our reality
despite all our scientific and enlightened, progression
we still can't fix
the most basic, of our most urgently desperate: needs!)
thanks for sharing, dear poet
Wow thanks very much for your feedback. Images can help to add to the imagery in the lines of the poem. Cheers and Best Wishes
Oooo very Stephen King ish - I enjoyed very much!
Thanks for your reply. Best Wishes
Took me into a vision of someone elses dreams here. Mine are nothing like you describe, perhaps now they may be, auto suggestion etc.
I enjoyed reading your post.
Thanks and Best Wishes - beware what you dream for!
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