Poems in Dreams
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THE BOATMEN OF LAOLONG: by Viceroy Zhu, before 1679, as told by Pu Songling; an incubated dream Traders were vanishing. Newly installed Viceroy Zhu fasted, focused, and dreamt the gods sent him a riddling poem. Each line suggested one word--together, they... CAUTION: BRUTAL ORGANIZED CRIME |
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DISCARDS: by Wayan; 2008/3/24, a rap heard in a dream--Dreamverse #39 A Marin girl finds a dirty secret in the school library--they discard the unpopular. She kinda identifies with the discarded books. And discarded people... |
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THE GOLDENE BOOK OF VENUS: by Anna Kingsford; 1881/3/15-16, a poem read in two dreams Poem from a book on how love can save lives & souls, read in two dreams of a Renaissance astrologer's library... |
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HOGAMUS HIGAMUS: by Mrs Amos Pinchot, or Claire MacMurray? Nov. 1939, a disavowed dream-poem. She dreamed she'd written a wise and beautiful poem. Half asleep she scribbled it down. Awake, she found... CAUTION: HOGGEREL |
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IN MY DARKEST HOUR: by Arlo Guthrie; 1967, a song heard in a dream. A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside... |
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IN THE CAMP (THE NAKED POEM): by Karl Patten; 1972/10/27; a death-camp poem dictated in a dream Fat Max eats with Heinrich the guard on Tuesdays. He talks too much. You and I are hungry. Tonight... The poem appeared in the dream as it appears on the page--words, even punctuation... CAUTION: DEATH CAMP, DEATH PLOT |
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KUBLA KHAN: by Samuel Coleridge; summer 1797, an interrupted dream-poem In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree (at least till that visitor from Porlock barged in) CAUTION: POET ON PAIN MEDS |
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LINES COMPOSED IN SLEEP: by Owen Meredith; before 1887; a Kubla-Khanlike poem-shard I dreamt an epic poem on a sinister ruined city now home only to reptiles. I woke with at least a hundred lines, but... |
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ONLY A PIECE OF PAPER: by Wayan; 1980/12/15, songlyric heard in dream. Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message... |
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THE PHOENIX: by A.C. Benson; 1894. A dream-poem. I don't understand this poem's symbolism or even its style. It came to me whole, in a dream... |
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POEM COMPOSED IN SLEEP: by Lidian Emerson, 1867, a lyrical love poem. Will you walk in the fields, love? / Let us be gone. The tall grass will wave to thee / Fairest one... |
PRINCESS LILY: by Dou Xun, as told by Pu Songling; before 1679: recurring psychic dreams, or fiction? |
Dou dreams he marries Lily; when a monstrous snake attacks her huge family, he reluctantly hosts them all... when he wakes, they turn out to be bees driven from their hive by a (very real) snake... |
THE SERMON OF CARMEN DOG: by Wayan; 1990/9/10, the ultimate public-speaking nightmare. |
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar... |
SONG FOR THE DANCE: by Roswila; 2000/11/25, a dream-poem |
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream... |
A WORD DREAM: by Maude Meagher; before 1936, a wild word-association dream. |
I often dream of words forming on a page as their images dance around me. Here's an example... |
YOU CANNOT STAY FOREVER: by Ursula Le Guin; c.1970, creepy hypnogogic verses |
You cannot stay forever / on this side of the river with darkness coming over / and salt has lost its savor... |
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