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To Dream or Not to Dream

The spiral staircase leading down to dreams ~
Or is it up if there be “up” at all ~
Defines its own dimensions’ rise and fall,
Rephrasing day’s experience which gleams
Endlessly recyclying key-word themes
As this is magnified, or that made small.
Masks ~ common to the day ~ at night may fall.
Once shed, greet picture puzzle pattern schemes
Recording strange perceptions as light beams
Now here, now there, preparing waking call, ~
Options spurned, or choices learned withal ~
To tear sleep’s shawl, converting links.  It seems
TO dream provides the oil that may inspire
DREAMs
new to spin enquiring spirit higher.


 

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  • unavailable
    September 8
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    Lovely Jon, sweet reading

  • Striders Bar - silver member
    September 8

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    Superb

    Aye, 'tis very well expressed, as usual. Imagery, rhythm and rhyme are just fine. Thanks for sharing this one with us.

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  • French Tries
    September 8

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    Cf also translation of Calderon's LA VIDA ES UN SUENO -1635
    "I dream that I am here
    of these imprisonments charged,
    and I dreamed that in another state
    happier I saw myself.
    What is life? A frenzy.
    What is life? An illusion,
    A shadow, a fiction,
    And the greatest profit is small;
    For all of life is a dream,
    And dreams, are nothing but dreams."

    ["Yo sueño que estoy aquí
    destas prisiones cargado,
    y soñé que en otro estado
    más lisonjero me vi.
    ¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
    ¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
    una sombra, una ficción,
    y el mayor bien es pequeño:
    que toda la vida es sueño,
    y los sueños, sueños son." ]

    Your point of view here is very interesting, -may I add "as usual"...- in particular the idea that the spiral staircase could take us "down" to the door of dreams (or "up", but this is more "admitted", maybe, that dreams bring us "up"). Up and down certainly, interpreting behind our daily "masks" for sure, always refering to our own hidden self.... I do agree.
    But it also goes through, and upside down, in every possible dimension, even unknown by the daylight of counsciousness Very beautiful.

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  • waydownuponjoy gold member
    September 8

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    Let us rise ...

    the theme of dreams in your well-shared poem is always right up my staircase ... for without them it surely might be a dull scene. Light the lamps and keep those candles burning as each day unravels the mysteries that come to us from beyond the great horizon or over the great divide. Please keep sharing your poetical thoughts as they serve as a beacon to ... ... ...
    jy

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