24 February 2020

While I Sleep




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Night and Sleep by Mary Evelyn Pickering (1878)



O, Morpheus, bring me a dream
and Hypnos, bring me forgetfulness
while I sleep
let the world turn backwards
so I wake with dinosaurs,
fly through fruit trees,
keep seeds safe from asteroids,
and watch them grow
through hundreds of millennia.



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5 comments:

  1. I LOVE that dream! The whole shebang could do it all again, hopefully sustainably, with wisdom and justice.

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  2. Thanks so for celebrating dreamtime, where time is an ocean without depth or breadth. There's a certain amniotic trust in dreamtime that all is and will be well--dunno where that security comes from, but it is a balm of the dream. Love dream-poems, too, where the language must point into unknowable rooms ...

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  3. A flight of fancy in a web of dream. Superlative poetry here, Susan, and my favorite also, if only for its dream feeling of fragile peace.

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  4. The dream of the future might be the genetic bank of seeds on Svalbard...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

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  5. The wish of the dream is beautiful

    Much❤love

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