"A Happy New Year’s Morning!"

He woke up with a feeling of great happiness
On the morning of the first day of 2009
He lay content in bed with a broad smile on his face
For he had had the most wonderful of dreams
He sat on a chair with his back to her
She atop the edge of a table behind him
With her arms draped round his neck
He holding her hands as they talked
All of a sudden he lowered his head
And kissed her right arm gently
The he turned his head upwards towards hers
And she leaned forward
So her lips could meet his
Then he awoke to the most wonderful perfumed scent
He had ever smelt in his life
But as he lay awake in bed remembering her
The picture he had of her in his mind’s eye
Was of her in yet another setting
This time half-reclined in a deck-chair
With her exquisite legs stretched out
Her flowing auburn hair trailing behind her neck in the wind
As she read a book on a white-sanded beach
A treasured gift to remember
Of a brief and marvelous subconscious encounter
With a mysterious long-legged svelte beauty
A most wonderful dreamland experience
On a very happy new year’s morning!

(A free-verse poem by Kofi Thompson.)