Shakespearean Dreams
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BIRD-SENSE: by Wayan; 2013/7/20; Shakespeare improv provokes a dream of having seven senses I dream I have sixth and seventh senses--and wake to realize I do! Just denied them, explained them away... CAUTION: SHAKESPEAREAN HEFT |
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CALIBAN IN ENGLAND: by Theodore Weiss; 1966 or 67; a dream-play never written As I wrote a poem on Caliban, I dreamt I was him: taken to Shakespeare's England, shown as a freak, I must escape to save Miranda and Prospero from assassins... |
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CUTENESS PAGEANT: by Wayan; 2008/8/29, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #16. I'm trapped in a cute cartoon universe! Worse, to judge this beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls... |
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EXPERIMENT WITH TIME by Nancy Price; 1948, a shamanic-initiation dream declined? I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages. But then I must fly over a sinister parade... |
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FETAL PAUSE: by Wayan; 2008/8/31, a nightmare-poem, Dreamverse #17 As I write a sad sex dream, a madman curls up fetally in the road outside my window. I'm slow to call 9-1-1, and... |
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FILLING THE ANCESTORS' SHOES: by Wayan; 1995/9/24, a shamanic dream. A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred... |
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FOX-BOY: by Wayan; 1997/2/28, a dream fable. A boy offends his uncle the King, who transforms him into a fox. Grounded! But Fox-Boy runs away... |
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FREE WAY? DETENTION FOR YOU!: by Wayan; 1997/2/14, a dream of the wages of fun. Zooming on freeways--carless levitation! But the Principal tries to punish us. And we resist... don't we? |
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HER CUTIE MARK: by Wayan, 2016/8/7, a dream fusing Shakespeare & My Little Pony After seeing The Tempest with a tattooed Miranda, I dream she has a Cutie Mark on her flank-- a logo showing her life-purpose, her life-path. Except she's outgrowing it... CAUTION: MILD NUDITY |
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LADY CASTLEMAYNE: by Samuel Pepys, 1665/8/14, an early lucid dream easing his fear of plague I dreamt, and knew I dreamt, and I made love to Lady Castlemayne, and had all my desire. If, as Shakespeere said, death is but sleep, and dreams may come, why then fear death?... |
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THE MIRANDA OATH: by Wayan; 1998/2/24, a subtly predictive political dream. Strange oaths are proposed for the first expedition to the Uranian moon Miranda... |
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MY CHANCE: by Howard Nemerov, 1980 or before, a comic dreamlet An actor-manager type is putting on Hamlet, and he offers me a role; I'm breathless, my chance has come at last! He'd like me to play... |
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MY MOTHER'S CLOSET: by Rachel Hadas, c. 2000; a dream-poem provoking a 2008/9/16 dream by Chris Wayan I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too... |
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SLAVES DON'T DANCE: by Wayan; 1999/8/1, a 17-page Shakespearean dream-comic (or ill. text) Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is... |
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SPIN, SPIN, FLY AGAIN: by Wayan; 2009/8/8, Shakespeare in drag inspires a flying-dream & poem Night. I'm scared of the men in the park--till I see they're all gay. I dance, and as darkness flares to dawn, remember how to fly--regain my falcon-wings... |
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SQUIRREL QUESTIONS: by Wayan, 2024/2/16; a surreal, cryptic dreamlet A mom & daughter caught a squirrel robbing their guaranteed rodent-proof birdfeeder. He speaks English so they demand to know how he did it. But he knows they won't hurt him... |
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"YOU'RE SO GAY!": by Wayan; 2013/1/24. A psychic dream of a time-short oracle.
I'm in line to meet a shockingly accurate psychic. But she's running late, so as I frame my question... CAUTION: I'M NOT GAY BUT I SURE AM QUEER |
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