in the fading night
your face was laden with dreams
fluttering eyelids
the rise and fall of your chest
and our curious kisses

Kim M. Russell, 2018

Sleeping Beauty – image found on Wikipedia

My response to Carpe Diem #1400 The Awakening, a love poem by Rumi

In the final regular episode of March, our inspiration is a love poem written by Rumi and translated by Deepak Chopra:

The Awakening

In the early dawn of happiness
you gave me three kisses
so that I would wake up
to this moment of love

I tried to remember in my heart
what I’d dream about
during the night
before I became aware
of this moving
of life

I found my dreams
but the moon took me away
It lifted me up to the firmament
and suspended me there
I saw how my heart had fallen
on your path
singing a song

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