16 thoughts on “dreams”

1. Very evocative. Your poetry soars by day, your dreams follow in your sleep.

   • thank you David! I just wish, just once, I knew how to come down without waking up!

2. I can come down in mine, usually by falling!

   • oh–not nearly as pleasant as the start, is it! Maybe it is better to fly until I wake up, then.

3. Beautifully narrated !!!

   • Thanks, GS.

4. Just shut your eyes and you’re be airborne again

   • quite true, usually

5. Love use of thermals… worked into one of the chapters the other day, third I believe. Good show.

   • thanks, Nelle. Love that word, the currents…

6. love the imagery, really.

   • oh, thanks so much!

7. and waking
   up, finding it gone
   and wishing….

   sometimes , you wake up
   at the wrong time in a dream,
   floating in its amber jet stream,
   at a point of its greatest promise
   as it danced along its self willed
   and illogical trajectory…
   and alas “revus interruptus”…..

   and then in vain you conjure a continuation
   by locking down unfurled eyelids,
   casting babalawo and ifa beads
   only to meet “resumption access denied”
   boldly staring at you opaquely
   like the negatives of a black and white picture
   from behind your tightly shut eyes!

   I hope this reaction does not ruin your poem as it is neither altercation nor wrangling!

   • oh–no, this is beautiful–it is amplification, which perhaps I should add to that very long list! Beautiful, N. Just beautiful! And true. We cannot always direct dreams. Ah…if I could…but that is for another poem not written yet.

8. Very nice

   • thank you!

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