Those hills are green again
where the horizon crouches behind
like a slant-eyed seducer.
There are highways all laid out
rolling with the inclines, serpentine
and I'm inclined to throw off
caution, to leave this place 
until everywhere is home
every earth a bed

42 thoughts on “Wishful thinking”

1. Oh, I LOVE that “slant-eyed seducer,” Laura. And your use of assonance here is fantastic.

   1. thank you De for the prompt that inspired

   2. I love “slant-eyed seducer, too!”

      1. ☺️

2. A stunning quadrille, Laura! I especially love the lines:

   ‘where the horizon crouches behind
   like a slant-eyed seducer’

   and

   ‘until everywhere is home
   every earth a bed’.

   1. many thanks Kim

      1. My pleasure, Laura.

3. Laura, evocative stream of consciousness that depicts human development as appropriately menacing. The McMansions keep sprouting up like toadstools around here and I feel your poem in my gut.

   1. Its also wanderlust without the courage to wander!

      1. I hear you, Laura!

4. I will join you in your wishful thinking. Love the last 2 lines, until everywhere is home, and every earth a bed.

   1. let’s wish for such things from the comfort of our homes 😉

5. “until everywhere is home
   every earth a bed” spoke to my heart, Laura. What a fabulous Q.

   1. thank you for your heartfelt feedback

      1. You are welcome.

6. Such a wistful feel. I love the image you create with “where the horizon crouches behind
   like a slant-eyed seducer.”

   1. thank you – it arises from spring fever Merril but the horizon always does seduce me especially under broad skies

      1. You’re welcome, Laura!

7. We all have to leave. One thing’s for sure

   much♡love

   1. hope it’s upward finally Gillena

8. I love the idea of everywhere as home, Laura ❤

   1. a nice non attachment idea – I’m halfway there

9. That green does call us to wandering. (K)

   1. after winter’s cloistering

10. The final line is so bohemian. Drool. 🙂

    1. haha – a twin soul!

11. Oh this brought out the wanderlust in me with that “slant-eyed seducer” of a horizon. There are so many places to call home.

    1. thank you Mish – where the heart is, the feet follow!

12. A transporting Q, Laura. Love the descriptive allure of the horizon as a “slant-eyed seducer.”

    1. thak you for being transported Dora

13. “where the horizon crouches behind”

    Love that line!

    1. ah thank you – yes its just about visible and still so inviting

14. Your poem connects me to both nature and my innate wanderlust – in a provocative way.

    1. happy to hear this provoked you Kim

15. Brilliant, particularly that “slant-eyed seducer”…JIM

    1. thanks Jim – much appreciated

16. “I’m inclined to throw off
    caution” nice to have such a place. I wish it for everyone. Lovely poetry. Thanks, Laura

    1. thank you Selma for such kind words

17. I love the ‘horizon crouching like a slant-eyed seducer.’

    1. thank you ❤

18. Wonderful and imaginative imagery including crouching horizons…serpentine…slant-eyed seducer.

    1. many thanks Lillian

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