U is for Usual

This is my response to this week's Poetry Potluck, which I discovered thanks to a link over at Porky's Expanse!. The theme for the week is "Muse, Art, Music and Poetry"

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The Usual Muse

Within the ordinary things we find
a fire that, once seen, will spark the mind,
illuminate extraordinary roads
that cross in unexpected ways, form nodes
which link bright worlds within to anchors of
substantial form. Our senses fall in love,
and through them, born of our delight, we share
the flame, ignite another when we dare
express the wonder in a common stone,
the way the sand-smoothed, tumbled surface shone
beneath the flashlight's beam, a moon touched by
some alien gleam, refracting through a sky
half-framed by grass along the path. Strange dreams,
awoken by the real, reveal what seems
for what it is: the every-day surreal.