http://www.wordnik.com/lists/poetrie-pained-resignation.xml <a href="/words/Poetrie">Poetrie</a> #3. An auto-Poetrie. Because I felt like sharing. Maybe I'll share more... <br /> <br />Together <br />by uselessness <br /> <br />In the idleness of thought today <br />I dreamt I held your hand <br />And though this was an <a href="/words/unexpected">unexpected</a> image <br />I preferred not to shake it away <br />Like any other careless daydream <br />Where these usual ideas emerge <br />From a murky haze of fancy <br />Instead I found <a href="/words/clarity">clarity</a> in your visage <br />The <a href="/words/warmth">warmth</a> of your fingertips <br />The <a href="/words/trust">trust</a> of your grip <br />Taken aback by your fragrant presence <br />And mesmerized by the <a href="/words/eternal sparkle">eternal sparkle</a> in your eye <br />That glistened just this once for me alone <br />A scene <a href="/words/hedged">hedged</a> in a moment <br />That will never be replayed <br /><a href="/words/Most likely">Most likely</a> <br />But permit me to dream such wild fiction <br />Can we pretend it carries no shame <br />And play a game of suppositions, what if... <br /><a href="/words/Imagine">Imagine</a> that I were any other <br />As I pretend we've never met <br />Two strangers thrown into the same <a href="/words/chaos">chaos</a> <br />But this time is something more <br />Against all odds, order springs forth <br />Knowledge replaces curiosity <br />Stability devastates spontaneity <br />Even happy we're <a href="/words/strangely confounded">strangely confounded</a> <br />The irony of life ever balancing the scales <br /> I think I would rather go on <a href="/words/dreaming">dreaming</a> <br />And see you every day <br />If only from a distance <br />Maybe we'll never <a href="/words/witness">witness</a> perfection <br />At least not together <br />But know that I enjoyed the thought <br />And <a href="/words/wonder">wonder</a> if you've ever done the same http://www.wordnik.com http://www.wordnik.com/words/unexpected Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:18:13 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/unexpected http://www.wordnik.com/words/clarity Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:18:06 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/clarity http://www.wordnik.com/words/warmth Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:18:01 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/warmth http://www.wordnik.com/words/trust Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:57 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/trust http://www.wordnik.com/words/eternal sparkle Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:52 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/eternal sparkle http://www.wordnik.com/words/hedged Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:47 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/hedged http://www.wordnik.com/words/most likely Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:37 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/most likely http://www.wordnik.com/words/imagine Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:33 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/imagine http://www.wordnik.com/words/chaos Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:30 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/chaos http://www.wordnik.com/words/strangely confounded Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:23 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/strangely confounded http://www.wordnik.com/words/dreaming Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:15 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/dreaming http://www.wordnik.com/words/witness Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:13 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/witness http://www.wordnik.com/words/wonder Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:11 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/words/wonder