Subject: The Room Full of Dreams
From: Christopher W. Thomas (creatician@poetic.com)
Host: dnb-as1s28.erols.com
Date: Tues Dec 23, 1997 at 11:05PM

we're all islands ... icefloats in the Arctic

ready to bang into the Titanic to sink her
we don't WANT ta sink her -
but sometimes we do ...
accidents DO happen

we're icefloats which bump in the night
and during the day ....
the warmth of the sun melts our top surfaces
and the slurry film becomes a skating rink
and as we all slide over the film -
it attaches itself to the soles our our feet
and our shoes become worn from the stickiness
of the pool - in which we stand ...
as the rubber tarnishes our other souls
and the heels which support the back part of our feet

heals ... as kind words - stir stews - and fire ignites
and the poet within us all - seeps in delight
and as we continue on - through day and night
learning how to accept - and thus make bright
all of the people who share space with us and make might
and we become enslaved to the beauty - and put up no fight
for the true madness - which exists - knows no fright
and the wonder of it all ... becomes purest in our sight
when all who share the time and space with a true poet - see the light
and settle in to see the purity which shines so bright

I am enslaved to the beauty within my soul
a Technicolor vision so real
and multifaceted ...
a rainbow of colors has amassed
... haze has lifted
and my true poetic soul
has shown through

I shine in color
my beams are dazzling
with the beauty
I have experienced ...
and the colors - race in my heart

all kinds of colors ...
subtractive colors
additive colors
cyan, magenta, yellow
red, blue, green
all of the complements -
all compliment each other

and thus the sky rains down in purity of soul
and the raindrops shine with all of the colors
reflected off the beams
and as I continue my thought

the colors seep from my dreams
and the people who have stopped and stared -
now look on - and decide they've leaned
long enough ... in this room - so full of dreams

Christopher W. Thomas
10:55pm 12/23/97

[written on-line during Chat 3 hours previously]