Barriers to flight
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by 
@d-pend.
Barriers to flight
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Behind this line — behind this colored tape
lie things restricted: darksome, indistinct
with glamour'd aura of the disallowed,
with eyes that glitter out warm-subtly:
and so, I cross, though I had long avowed
to stay within confinèd sanity.
Caution pled by huesome warning signs
is set aside by soul afire for life;
and all the pleading, leveled reasoning
of elders soon dismissed, for sweetest rue
becomes the bitter-cravèd seasoning
of heady draught that quickens pulse — a brew
that offers strange and delicate delights,
enhances and odd-sharpens all the sights
that one may glimpse along the winding way.
Imagination — neutral, bane, and boon,
these many shades encompass, though too soon
exhilaration peaks and leaves the day
a monochrome and posterizèd gray.
These paltry lines I pen to long enthrone
the hint of that deep magic I have known
and know again, I shall — I swear it true,
when time dissolves, and I — again with you
shall shatter all the barriers to flight.
words and images by @d-pend
created for HIVE on March 12, 2021.
images are original photographs processed with Deep Dream.