When Wizards Dream at Night
While aged heads full of magic rest
Gently upon soft feather pillows,
Magely imaginations run wild.
Released from the bounds of consciousness,
Dreams and notions wander the ether
As shadows of spirit and power.
Adrift across the vast firmament
Like dark tendrils of deeper blackness,
Nightmarish thoughts slowly coalesce
Into fanciful monstrosities.
Imbued with an ephemeral life,
Eldritch beasts battle amongst the stars.
Ebon ranks clash with silent fury.
Tentacled fiends grapple winged harpies.
A dragon’s talons rip asunder
Wispy spectres and amorphous wraiths.
Cyclopean giants wield great clubs
Against hordes of heaving, squirming things.
The savage tides of war ebb and flow
Until an apocalyptic dawn
Disperses the fell menagerie
And the soundless spectacle subsides.
Waking minds rein in the wayward dreams
And call them home for another day
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Authors: Richard H. Fay. Form: Illustrated, Poem. Length: 23 lines. Editor who accepted this story: Previous Editors. Reprint History: Originally published in Tales of the Talisman Volume IV, Issue 4, Spring 2009
Author Bio
Richard H. Fay is a published artist, illustrator, poet, and writer of non-fiction, as well as an amateur medievalist, folklore nut, fan of classic speculative literature, and avid reader of true tales of the supernatural and the unexplained.
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