IISZ 2018 Challenge #5 - The Queen's Dreams

[vagabond]

series of short drafts (that maybe will stay drafts), trying to catch dreams.
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the porpoises

with their purple purposes
believe they can swim with the fish
and stay in this world - yet,
though it might take a while,
they run out of breath.
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i sleep

inside my wicker basket
with all those suns and moons and planets,
light as breeze,
i elevate them in my dreams
to plant them in the sky,
and when i wake their weight turns real,
comes crashing over me.
i sleep -
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ready to explode

they made me wear those shoes,
too tame for boundless, dirty feet,
and still... so still...
i could adapt
and managed with the years
that went on malforming my toes.
i shoved the pressure
back into my heart.
all is swollen now.
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puppet

i stumble in my precious dress,
shaped expertly from clay, it feels
as if the earth still burns.
my joints are creaking,
and the strings,
they almost strangle me.
there is no grace
in how i have to dance.
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story

all the stories about prince and princess..
all the happy endings (and some sad)
but ours
is not to read.
as we enter in the cave
we have this light,
flickering as it may be,
it shows paintings from the stone age
and we recognize
it´s us.
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