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The Web Poetry Corner - Rick Bandy - Dreamers

Dreamers

by

Rick Bandy

Sometimes it’s their walk,
A coiled spring step
A quicker cadence
Moving, ready to pounce.

Or it’s in their eyes
The line indistinct
Between hard direct stare
And hundred mile gaze.

I see it first in the shoulders
Squared, forcing the head up
To look you in the eye
And push forward.

From green willow
To stout old oak
Years merely a fact
Never a state

They are the dreamers
Poor fools who
Forsaking the voice of reason
Continue the chase

Pity them
Banished from security
And flirting with failure
Silly dreamers

Not sensible and settled
Like you and I
We listened to the inner voice
And sold our birthright.

For a bowl of soup.

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