Dreamer, what are your dreams?
Is your brain frozen cold in a cloud?
Is reality less than it seems?
Your visions - silent or loud?
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Cumulus, cumulo, cumular
Banality, fluffy and white.
Do you dream of a faraway star?
Is your day exploding at night?
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Can stratus level the mind,
Greyness obscuring all thought?
The dream has nothing to find
Some fish can never be caught.
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Fly high, your Cirrean dream,
Your castle founded on air
A non-understandable theme,
Hopes and ambitions laid bare.
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Dream of nimbucular rain
Torrents of darkness and fear
Anticipation of pain
Only waking can make disappear.
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Dreams held fast within dreams
Clouds – grey, white and immense -
See there, as daylight first gleams,
The dreamer searching for sense.
About the Creator
John Welford
John was a retired librarian, having spent most of his career in academic and industrial libraries.
He wrote on a number of subjects and also wrote stories as a member of the "Hinckley Scribblers".
Unfortunately John died in early July.
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"Dover Beach", a poem by Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold’s (1822-88) major contribution to English literature was as a prose writer, but in his early years he wrote a considerable quantity of poetry, most of it not being particularly good. However, with “Dover Beach” he produced one of the greatest poems of the 19th century, and it deserves its place in popular acclaim.
By John Welford5 years ago in Poets
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Great Poem