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Where Sanity and Insane Meet
03 July 2006

Now to know your name
your beauty, and of class
To reach out and ponder
this beauty you have to adore

Of spirits touching
hearts clutching a net
Strands of cotton
entangled upon a thread

Now to know, what this all stands for
heaven and holly, Christmas time in giving
Reaching out, to taste the fruit of each berry
Some more of compassion,
others not as bitter sweet

Where this Canaan was a land of “hope”
a faithful being, to this charity of cause
A Commonwealth, richness in heart to deliver
Where kindness and above all,
sanity and insane meet


“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be
quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
(born 1928), a pioneer of sleep researcher, and founder of the
world’s first sleep laboratory at Stanford University, USA.
He was a leading authority on sleep, sleep deprivation,
and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares