Hi everyone!  We have a guest host today, Truedessa from TrueWanderings. -Grace

Welcome to Tuesday Poetics! This is Truedessa from TrueWanderings. I am excited to be a guest host today! I would like us to take a journey into the world of dream poetry. These poems tell a story based on a dream or a number of dreams intertwined. In the earliest times, shaman were poets of consciousness who understood the power of song and story to teach, heal and open the gateways between the worlds. Often when practicing dreamwork, meditation techniques are used to create a space for active dreaming and this can be accompanied by music such as the beat of a hoop drum.

“Living by synchronicity isn’t merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit, and how the world-behind-the-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality.” – Robert Moss

“A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, although the dreamer may perceive the dream as being much longer than this”.

Learn more about dreams here.

Dreams
 Langston Hughes 1901 – 1967

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow

A Dream Within a Dream
 Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow:
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand–
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep–while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

For today’s prompt I would like to challenge you to write a poem based on a dream or a tidbit of a dream. If you can’t remember a dream, use your imagination to pen a poem about dreams. Another option is to use one of the lines from one of the above poems as a springboard. There is no form or length requirement. Let’s create a dream song or poem, an anthem from the beat of our hearts. What message would you like to send out into the world?

New to dVerse? Here’s how to join in:

• Write a poem in response to the challenge.
• Post your poem on your blog and link back to this post.
• Enter your name and the link to your post by clicking Mr. Linky below (remember to check the little box to accept the use/privacy policy).
• Read and comment on your fellow poets’ work –- there’s so much to derive from reading each other’s writing: new inspiration, new ideas, new friends.

I hope you enjoy the prompt and here’s to wondrous dream poetry.

 

Brief Bio of Truedessa:
I reside in the Northeastern part of the USA.  I am exploring new roads to adventure as a dreamer and a poet. I study dreamwork looking for synchronicities in life. Poetry has become a creative outlet to express the wanderings of my heart. I have been blogging for over 10 years and have been fortunate to connect with some wonderful poets, storytellers and friends online. I enjoy walking, meditating and playing hoop drum in my spare time.