The dream poet

poetry, Thinkings and poems, villanelle 1 Minute

 

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Someone said that in our dreams we write plays like Shakespeare which we can’t do in real life.I think dreams are like poetry.They use images,metaphors, and puns.
I dreamed my husband has bought me a house in Ealing [Healing?].And even if we don’t remember them they go on in their hidden life sorting out our daily impressions and excitements.Making play with them.
And sometimes those  who write poems will have an experience where there is more in their poem than they knew when they wrote it.Because the act of writing makes images come up from the dark fertile earth of our minds.I didn’t consciously think about the meaning of sleeping on winter leaves before I wrote the poem below.

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I have sifted earth"

I have  walked the  silent paths of grief
Sunless,dreary,cold and all alone.
I have   slept on beds of  winter leaves.

I  know  that death’s a greedy,grasping  thief.
Although my heart weeps and my joy has gone,
I have never felt I was deceived.

I have learned that human life is brief.
I have learned  by sorrow we’re undone.
I  have sifted earth and what’s beneath.

I  have felt  the dark emotions in me seethe
 I've   felt cruelly mocked by   glaring sun.
I  have  learned the geography of grief.

I wait in sorrow for my  life to cease
Yet   some are never loved by anyone
I have dreamed in beds of winter leaves

Unconsoled  grief  can make   us dumb
Into  our  hearts, we drag the ice  that numbs
I have walked the silent paths of grief
I have made my bed on winter leaves.
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Published by Katherine

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