A Home of Dreams

This poem was written in response to the Rattle® Poetry Ekphrastic Challenge for January 2023 and was ultimately not selected. You can find more information here.

https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/

A Home of Dreams

The windowpane

A reddish glow

Of the embers

Dying low

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Our little house

In snowy frame

The cold and peaceful

Evening tame

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That summer had

In married way

The year now turns

Our first holiday

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Gone our guests

To depart

Us two alone

Yet beats one heart

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Our bodies lit

By firelight

In your arms

You held me tight

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Across your eyes

A fleeting glance

As on the walls

Our shadows danced

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A family there

Soon could be

So under mistletoe

We made three

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A future built

Before our eyes

As clear as

That winter sky

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Filled with love

To busting seams

We’ll make this house

A home of dreams

Submitted under MRB