Poems, essays, and other writings by eric bleys

Hope

White lines

Flow across dotted islands

Light dust in the fog of snow

Fair ships of daydreams hour

Holds the ghost at dawn

To gaze and hold a bright beaming isle

Great heart where machinery lays

In damp and dark mist

Of fair boats tied in white

Highlands of peaceful bliss

Throws the mountains tall

As they drop their kind faces

Over fine shadow

And dust in a golden world

Shows its bright heart

And pulls its picture

Into the deepest image

Of unimaginable love

Soft swinging sails

Built like the peaks of night

Of the towers and all the towns

The fairest ones

Was like the creams

Of flowing clouds

And dawn breaking its sights

Above the boats at sea

And the green pale

Reflection of brightest

Stammering of waves

Above healing heights

And drifting mountains

And deep dark ways of the hours

Wavering like a sunlight’s ballet

Strange tall figure

Drap your kind eyes

Like a mountain above our hills

Deep hearts

And minds held

In purple perplexity

Bringing iron

And ringing might

In an engine’s red lights

Across the frozen nights

Of 5th avenue

In the fog of New York's dream

It is like love

Flowing on Coney Island’s

Glowing sparks

And gray bright red clouds

Dust and leaves

Green dust and deep maroon

Cover of a million miles

In the deep mist of the night

Fair hills

Spark of all the consequential

And indefinite

Of images like a May haze

Beneath the bridge

And the wandering maze

Sweet high-lines

And deep diving

Green water ways

Milk is all in a bay

As in a pilgrim’s sway

What I describe

Is the birth of new stars in the light

Like hope

Like a swaying wind

It touches our skin like hearts

And bringing some new dream

With its kind swirls

Upon a dancing whirlwind

And pegs of justice

In strengths great might

By the shoreline

In the sandy bay

Like a park

With deep gray

As a blanket

To bring forth

A kindest wave

Of knowing what life could be

In an ever growing field

As of wonder in wonder’s might

To seek an ever great delight

By the bay of ice clear light

To sleep in a ship’s bed

With peace as its pure wind

And a good heart as a sure sail

To guide and ever gather

Until the posts gather a high speaking hour

And hold bright beauty in its infinity

To float on the minds

Highest hour of thought

A dreams deep dipping wind

And a characters

Greatest fair place for

A dawning new heart

Draped in its highest

With perfect pictures

Mountains and rolling math

Colliding with a desert cloud

And diving to the jungle wild winds

To find peace in that

That fair night and shade of love

Wherein everything

Knows of its completion

Of full thoughts built in its dust

For dust

Is where life lives on the red tree's bark

Of a swimming highland wave

By the mountains and the rolling of math

To the trees with fair pulse

Of grass in a red mirror

Simple

Like a shade of true white

And a hand

In its prayer

I will hope you can imagine

("Hope" - By Eric Bleys)


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