In The Shadows Of Promise: Poetry Of Dreams (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798362550615)

In The Shadows Of Promise is an anthology of poetry based on my dreams..

I have made love in my dreams, explored new lands, spoken foreign languages and even experienced life through the eyes of other beings. I have been killed in battle, though I have no real life military experience. It is as if in some dreams I merge into the dreams or lives of others. Some incredibly happy, some terribly sad, some horrific Some dreams leave me with a sense of purity and innocence.

Winter's Dawn

I have not forgotten you, my windy friend

As you steal in and surround my world

And still the night with your shy breath

Causing fall of leaves to soften my walk ahead.

I did wait for now

To see how you sweep the land of summer's waste

Giving flight to the flying

And death to the dying.

I did wait for your cool embrace

Of my rosy cheeks and crystal tears

To remind me of life's precious tides

In the sea of my existence.

What polite warning you do give

Of cold that's sure to come upon me

So I might fetch wood to warm my home

And blanket my bed with mother's quilt.

What great caring you do give

To share the past year's hopes

And love of friends and family both

All with dreams far and new.

I have not forgotten you, my windy friend

As the great clouds dance to your songs of time

To clear the morn for the sun to smile

And melt the frost in fields of crisp blades.

This anthology is divided in 6 chapters.

• Bealtitudo (bliss)
• Cordolium (heartache)
• Amor Novus (new love)
• Anguista (anguish)
• Meliora (for the pursuit of something better)
• Cogitato (Meditations and reflections)