I wish love grew as ivy
Boundless, disencumbered
Sprouting across spaces
Rainbows of faces
As we sway hand in hand
I wish for seas
Of selfish hearts to crash
Against rocky reefs
Dissolve and dilute
In harbors of integrity
I wish for all clichéd
World peace, homemade
Stirred, simmered, seasoned
With the very gifts
That God gave us
I wish for stars
To forever befuddle me
Amaze me, allude me
Remain unreachable
So I never stop reaching
…and wishing
As your host today at dVerse Poets Pub, I am asking you to leave your worries at the door. Make a wish and write a poem about it. It may be a personal longing or a global vision. Your poem can be serious, humorous or whimsical.
Join us for some “Wishful Thinking”. Doors open at 3 p.m. EST.
mishunderstood 
I wish this too!!! Beautifully written without being sentimental — oh how I love this prompt! 🙂
Thank you, Lillian! 🙂
I do love that wish to be befuddled too… I should never have studied Physics. Fortunately i think I can still be amazed by other things…
haha..so glad there are still things to befuddle you!
What an amazing poem this is! I love every word of it. It is true and not sentimental one iota. Wonderful wishes. may they all come true.
Thank you so much, Toni. That means a lot. 🙂
🙂
Oh, Mish. I do so love this prompt, and I LOVE your piece. Especially this:
“I wish for stars
To forever befuddle me
Amaze me, allude me”
That “befuddle” is one of those brilliant word choices I envy. Right place, right time. Disarming and perfect.
Thanks De! 🙂
I once appeared in the play BAAL. The last line, as he is dying, reaching out, is “Stars”. A lovely reverent & intoxicating piece/peace, indeed. But, for me, quantum physics did not dampen my hunger to understand the cosmos, it heightened it.
A dramatic ending indeed….and I’m glad the stars continue to mystify!
This has to be my favourite stanza – it could stand on its own:
‘I wish for seas
Of selfish hearts to crash
Against rocky reefs
Dissolve and dilute
In harbors of integrity’
and those lines:
‘I wish for stars
To forever befuddle me’.
It’s important to retain some mystery!
Yes we still need to wonder. 🙂
This is absolutely exquisite writing ❤ especially love the images ‘I wish for stars to forever befuddle me. Amaze me, allude me. Remain unreachable so I never stop reaching…and wishing’ ❤ Beautifully penned.
Lots of love,
Sanaa
Thank you, Sanaa for your kind comments.
This is so lovely and loving, Mish. Over the weekend I heard, related to the canonization of Mother Teresa, that she said that we need to make world peace happen within our families. It seems so reasonable.
Thank you, Victoria. I strongly believe that is the only way there can be change….one by one, child by child actually. Empathy needs to be nurtured early.
“I wish for seas
Of selfish hearts to crash
Against rocky reefs
Dissolve and dilute
In harbors of integrity” …a most beautiful death wish i’ve ever read…may this become true…
Wow, Sumana…love that comment. Thank you. 🙂
Lovely read.
Thank you. 🙂
LOVE that last stanza
Thanks so much! 🙂
I feel more positive after reading this wish list.
Glad it had that effect on you. 🙂
THank you, Mish, for the prompt and this wonderful poem! Agree. 🙂
Thanks for joining in! 🙂
There IS A road lined with
trees on both sides.. a distant
place of dreams new each
now.. a day
of present
that never
ends
as fruition
more as wishes
become more than
arrears of yesteryearsnows..
and there was a day of great
darkness for me.. a hypnotherapist
psychologist attempting to trance me
believing that my pain would go away..
i looked in her fish tank and
saw those aquarium
walls of pain..
i looked to
the painting
of that road without
even a distant spark of hope..
and she told me about Milton Erickson..
in a wheel chair who said humans can
do whatever they believe to do next real..
basically the father of medical hypnosis
as insurance will pay for this therapy
as a proven one to work.. but
not without emotions as
i had lost mine..
there was
no way
for it to work..
as emotions are the glue
of iSREaL magic… the powers of human
that spark the impossible into miracles
iSREAL.. and trance is to let go of the
beta wave worry mind to go deeper
in letting unconscious positive
emotions nuanced rise
to closer
from alpha
to theta brain
wave mind now
guide and master
of what inspires next..
to be as what is fELt
comes to
be isReAL..
N o W as liFE..
i’ve lEarned now to
master trance by just
moving my body in flow
for seconds.. and the reason
i can leg press close to half a ton
for 33 times at my gym.. and write
all these words.. in flow with never
thinking at all.. is the deeper parT fearless as
me rises to fruition.. as this dream trance rises
the cream to the top of my existence.. fearless
love.. my friend.. comes deep deep deep from within..
thatT painting of those trees and that road now iS onE
that goes to inFinity more of MoVinG strength and creativity now..
as Stamina CreaTinG
for fearless
Love mY FriEnd..
never ever to be less than more now..
thanks for this prompt.. Mish.. it IS A gifT..:)
Well I can’t top that, nor will I try. You have the gift of expression.
Ah..
But
The
Key
Is inspiration like this..
Mish.. Thank you..:)
I am new to dVerse, Mish, but I am so glad that my first day with the poetry is your prompt on Wishful thinking. As I read your poem as well as the others (even in writing my own poem response), I am realizing how important dreaming is to living a creative life. A life worth living. I especially found your focus on reaching and unreachable a fascinating paradox — that resonated with me. Thank you for sharing your poem!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the prompt. Reading others’ poems and commenting is very much encouraged over at dVerse. Hope to see you again. 🙂
Definitely!
These are some wonderful wishes, indeed.
Thanks, Linda. 🙂
Lovely poem 🙂
Thank you, Arcadia Maria. 🙂
Ah, beautiful wishes. I love the last paragraph best. It is good to have that sense of wonder and magic for the world around us. I think that makes us more loving and caring of others.
Thank you, Imelda…and yes, I agree! 🙂
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Really lovely and lyrical. And such good wishes, too.
Thank you Susan. 🙂
Wonderful read! I love this wishilicious poem and prompt! ❤️
And I love “wishilicious”!
Beautiful wishes, all of them.