Come – surrender yearning spirit to beckoning Fantasy
and muse in sensuous interlude on floating Reverie.

Quench Desire's carefree thirst; soar upwardly
where pleasant whispers rustle dreamily.
On deep ceaseless vistas unbind reason’s eye;
in blissful abstract leap, envision azure sky.

Join, now, a graceful pantomime of clouds
burgeoning into towering billowed shrouds.
With resplendent white mantles, sweep and converge
atop darkening base – and toward Heaven surge.

Can you sense the cooling mists and distant thunder drum
portending refreshful showers surely soon to come?

Gaze next on sapphire limpid bay below,
reflecting sunlit sky in burnished glow.
But that enraptured call of sea agleam
must be rejoined as essence of another dream.

With phantasmagoric sensations channeled,
drift to yonder lea, in sunlight now enameled.

Waft in rambling curve toward awaiting diadems
of gently swaying inquiring floral gems.

Glide to their refracting violet tint;
ponder the balmy scented pastel glint
emerging dreamily into rhapsodic view;
draw near to delight in fragrant lilac dew.

Savor ample verdant bush plush in tiers aleaf;
linger in luscious thought at the relaxing green motif.

Here, speckled greenery like impressionist dabs of muted tones
assemble profusely to display blossoms in countless cones.

Each flowered pyramid flaunts exploding swirls
of thriving pink cruciform flower curls --
Frail tiny stationary whirligigs
immobilized on splendor'd fragile twigs.

Following release, in climax, of fragrant aerosol,
enervated older florets prepare to fall.

Succumb to these enchanting floral arrays;
bask and tarry in their hushed perfumed displays,
mindful of the random bee disinclined
to share with you its nectar’d treasure find.

At last, departing hand-in-hand we pursue wistful lastingness,
idly sailing wing-and-wing across the deep of - nothingness.

Now, reluctantly dismount Fantasy with fulfillment fair possessed,
savoring the lingering tendrils of Ecstasy in rapture just caressed.

Listen to "Lilac Rhapsody" read by the late Mindy Lou Simmons:
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14784510