Ivy................................................................(pertnikoff)   Author:  39179  Category:(Poetry) Created:(1/31/2004 8:02:00 PM) This post has been Viewed (466 times) In the land where freedom blows, and unseen woes Highly paid, the price of things Within this land of loveless kiss She found tendrils binding in bliss, All made Of ivy Of this world of purchased love and flightless wing There lived a turtle shell Moving slowly in shielded dreams, All because Of ivy With a kiss they bound her with cares In French lace and tender bloom The scented airs and beautiful wares All entangled With ivy She dreamed the dream of bloodless need Where vow and prince lay wasted For the chains, they had her in the end Their links all made Of ivy In this land she spilled her heart Bruised and torn on rocky thorns To see so much and to live Among the sweat stained leaves Of ivy The princess fell into the spell Sleeping into the waking dream She bound her love In white cotton gloves Craving the touch Of ivy The king he came, To bring love and estrange The vines that entangled her heart With one last kiss she denied her bliss Wishing instead Of ivy The crown of queen, lost to the dream Her heart, to self, untrue In the end she did not understand The binding chain Of ivy The test was failed, in the night of wails Of lost hearts and rainbow dreams The crown falling down, shattered the realm Leaving her only The ivy In her tower atop the funeral bower Her hair too short to win back love Who will grace or give her chase When her heart lay bound In ivy The gilded cage, familiar in strange Worlds crashed in rainbows To the ground The tear once lived yet could not give The strength to free Of Ivy But at the well she fell to the spell The scents too strong and heady Falling asleep in life so sweet As vines embraced her Of ivy The struggle for life in endless The dream became unseen As life ever slowly Slipped away Choked at last In ivy Jan 31, 2004 You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or interesting stories for the world to read and respond to Click here Scroll all the way down to read replies. Show all stories by   Author:  39179 ( Click here ) Spring is coming