Dream killer

[scatteroflight]

In the darkness
the gathering peace

Light grows dimmer
I remember

I am pressed by dreams
a dream
that pricks me by day
and cloaks me by night

Not enough faces
only one face
your quiet, cruel face

Dream killer, dark one
I see only your face
all that I live by night
is you

And there is no power
of words over dreams
and you are there
when there is no sign of you
and when I wake
I know you were there

I banish the dream killer
to death-in-life
and dream in the day
and accept the light


-for A.N.

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I have a feeling I'm ripping off Jeff Buckley and not doing it terribly well

 

[zooropamanda]

I dont think Jeff would mind

That last stanza hit me

 

[Bonochick]

I love it...

Oh, gosh, you went and made me get tears in my eyes...darn you...*lol*

Seriously though, I really liked it...to me, it seemed to get better and better by every line.

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"I Can Lose Myself, You I Can't Live Without"

 

[travu2]

I'm a big fan of minimalism, and you are wonderful at it. I really love this poem. You use just the right words, and then leave enough to the reader's imagination to let it really sink in.

I especially like these lines:

Originally posted by scatteroflight:

a dream
that pricks me by day
and cloaks me by night

Originally posted by scatteroflight:

And there is no power
of words over dreams
and you are there
when there is no sign of you
and when I wake
I know you were there

I banish the dream killer
to death-in-life
and dream in the day
and accept the light

 

[BabyGrace]

gorgeous scattero

the whole thing, i can't pick specific lines. I love the ending

thanks for sharing

 

[scatteroflight]

Thanks everyone--Bonochick, I am terribly pleased at your major compliment, I love to think that something I wrote could move someone enough to put tears in their eyes--I'm not a sadist either

Travu2, thanks, but you know it's funny, the kind of poetry I would really love to write is the sort of imagery-rich poetry you do so well--sometimes I think my poetry ends up so spare because I can't think of the right words to use--but I guess if the reader can fill in the gaps themselves that's something

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A place that has to be believed to be seen...

 

[travu2]

Wow.. thanks for that compliment.

But there are times when I sort of step back from a poem and wonder if I'm using that imagery as a crutch, and I end up cutting a lot out. I think there are an almost infinite number of ways you can express something, and it's fun to go exploring, and I feel a real need to go exploring, but it's easy to go off on a tangent and lose the substance of the poem in a gratuitous avalanche of attractive but empty imagery.. that's one example of a situation where the appeal of saying more with less comes in for me, and I have a lot of admiration for you and others who can do that so effectively.

You have used a lot of interesting imagery.. in your poetry and elsewhere.

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"LOL! So and so bleeds vegetables!!"

 

[scatteroflight]

"LOL! So and so bleeds vegetables!!"

I'd forgotten about that.



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Your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape