In Your Dreams!



CARRY ON TUESDAY

http://carryontuesdayprompt.blogspot.com/2011/04/your-prompt-for-tuesday-april-19th-this.html

suggests the first line of William Blake's poem 'The Angel' (in blue)

IN YOUR DREAMS!

"I dreamed a dream.

 What can it mean?"

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Well, not an awful lot!

Though it may seem

That, in your dream,

Things seem to hit the spot.

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Do you believe

That you receive

Messages from thin air?

That some outside force

Alters the course

Of your future, for foul or fair?

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Ah no! Your life,

 Full of joy or strife,

Is the only source of dreams.

Benign or tragic,

There's nothing magic

About a dream, it seems.

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You lost a purse,

You met a nurse,

You fell over....... yesterday

Tonight, no doubt,

You'll work things out

In a thoroughly dreamlike way.

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But the nurse will fall,

You'll lose a ball,

Pictures will taunt and tease,

And added tension,

I hate to mention,

Will be caused by your eating cheese

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Your poor old mind,

In its daily grind,

Is thoroughly organised,

But, at night, your sleep

May be very deep,

And your brain will be atomised!

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Slower, quicker,

Flicker by flicker,

Your brain will relive the day,

It will make absurd

Each act, each word,

In its own little quirky way

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And, should you brood,

It will take that mood

And transfer it to your dream.

Ridiculous notions

Based on your emotions,

Will add colour to the theme.

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But as to Fate

Lying in wait

To add to your little plot............

What does it mean

Each dreamlike scene?

Sorry!

Not a lot!

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WHITE BILLOWS.

Blissfully the bedding billows,
Shimmering sheets and perfect pillows,
Wafting the lady to a sleep
Dreamless, peaceful, dark and deep.
Bright the honey-coloured skin
Enhancing the white bed she's in.
Curtains blowing in a breeze
Which wafts a tiny tendril-tease.
Oh that all our nights could be
As perfect as this one we see!
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