Kathleen Raine
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| BIRDS OF DREAM: by Kathleen Raine, between 1981 & '87; a mystical dream poem Colorful birds swirl round me. They may be natives of Paradise--may be, in fact, avian angels... |
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| THE CRYPT: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; a chthonic dream poem Holding a luminous crystal sword, I enter a crypt where a king lies--ill, not dead. An old woman wants to punish him, but as he stirs, I sheathe my sword... |
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| DREAM FLOWERS: by Kathleen Raine, between 1953 & '65; a dream florifying dreams I dreamt I was given verbena sprigs--from my mother, I'm told. But am I me, Persephone, or all the daughters given love by all the mothers? |
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| A DREAM OF ROSES: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; a colorful warning dream I walked a vast rose garden, but all were Ophelia's yellow blooms of love forsaken; not one was the color of love's true flower... |
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| THE ELEMENTALS: by Kathleen Raine, between 1953 & '65; a shamanic dream of earth-spirits Giant presences; rock, hill and crag are aspects worn. Shape-shifters they are; each in as many forms as eyes behold... |
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| THE HOLLOW HILL (PART 6): by Kathleen Raine, 1940; a dream elegy to a mentor In Ireland, in Yeats's stone tower, he leads me up the spiral stair toward a thyme-scented portal... |
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| LAST NIGHT I SEEMED: by Kathleen Raine, between 1978, '79 or '80; a revenant dream poem Last night I seemed in your embrace; you were about to die. Today I wake into my place: you immortal, I... |
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| MANSION OF THE DEAD: by Kathleen Raine, between 1974 & '77; a nightmare I roamed the mansion of the dead, my heart athrob with terror, lest I see faces, not human, that once shone on me with familiar love... |
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| NAMED: by Kathleen Raine, between 1981 & '87; a mystical dream poem A voice calls to me by name--but not the name I now bear, evoking memories of another life... |
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| NOVEMBER DREAM: by Kathleen Raine, between 1974 & '77; a longing dream poem In my dream I walk through golden glowing woods; I wake to a soggy London November... |
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| THE RIVER: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; two mystical dream poems on dropping the ego I tossed the crystal decanter of my self into the river, and watched it float away... |
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| SOLILOQUY #5: by Kathleen Raine, between 1988 & '92; an ultrashort dream-poem I set out in a dream / To go away / Away is hard to go, but no one / Asked me to stay... |
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| TOLD IN A DREAM: by Kathleen Raine, between 1965 & '71; a mystical dream poem A voice tells me I have 100 months to live. I vow it'll be enough to finish my work here... CAUTION: THAT VOICE WAS WRONG |
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