Promptly Poetry

Reverie

Reverie

Like the Beagle
that carried Darwin to discovery,
full-sailed for the Pacific,
and the Galapagos,
there to find the creatures
that fed the seed of imagination,

or the beagle hound,
on the trail of the fox,
red-coated hunters following on,
he raises the haloo cry,
runs with the pack of adventurers,
and so to the goal,

and as Peter Beagle says,
we wander from vision to daydream,
searching for the culmination
of our secret desires.
Without a dream,
we perish.


Line count: 18
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry, Week 44
Prompt: Write a poem inspired by this quote: "But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished." ~ Peter S. Beagle.