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Open Poetry #23

To Die In a Dream

majnu

Senior Member

since 2002-10-13

Posts 1088
SF Bay Area

0 posted 2002-11-13 01:13 AM

To Die In a Dream

She came to me again last night;
I was asleep.
She lay down beside me in front of the fireplace.
The flames flickering high in November's chill
Played tiger stripes across her breasts;
My Bengali Tigress - even with eyes closed
I saw her.
She bent over me in embrace,
Her jet hair falling all about my head.
It smelled like jasmine - always jasmine,
As if she too were carried to me on a soft breeze.

She took me high to mountainous heights;
We bathed in the very streams that feed the Ganga,
And loved on the jewels that sit atop Gaia's crown.
Plunging to the Sea together our river of passion rampant ran,
And even as we approached the final waterfall,
Ere the Sea,
I awoke to my bed of rumpled sheets;
Looking about in the darkness,
I almost heard a faint laugh;
The water finally plunged forth,
and I wept.

-majnu
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Timid thoughts be not afraid. I am a Poet.

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

1 posted 2002-11-13 09:27 AM

wonderful vivid imagery in this...
as well as passionate expression using personification and theme.
Well done poet sir.

No one has ever shown me how to see the world the way I see it now ...
and I never saw blue like that before.

~Tom Kimmel~

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2002-11-13 11:35 AM

Nicely presented dream!

Connel

Senior Member

since 2002-11-04

Posts 736
Florida, USA

3 posted 2002-11-13 11:38 AM

I always thought that if you died in a dream that youwould die here... Have you noticed that no one ever dies in there dream,? i mean they might, but then they die here.. But we always wake up before we die. Ever noticed?

I wish to become a great poet some day, but it will only come in time. Til then, I shall write my poems, and wait.

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