drifting on thoughts ... in ...a soft snow

..of where I am ...caught in a winter dream....waking to Venus in the eastern, pre-dawn sky....alone on the waves, drum beats still play and carry the captured words

~~~I'm missing the star that fell to the sea, but I hold it in my heart....the soft sand beaches where I wrote my lover's name in sea shells of lapis lazuli ...a pleasure garden in the sky (((a perky pink tipped bulb in winter))) keeps me believing in a return of spring and ...