"A Dream Within A Dream" - Writing with Jen - November 5, 2014

an autumnal walk
reflecting on springs gone by
- blackbirds always sing

don't reflect on tomorrows
life's an ephemeral dream

life is illusion
as the noble Buddha says -
t'is a dream we dream

illusions in illusions
tomorrows in yesterdays

sand in an hour glass
each grain a second of life
- slipping quickly by

(c) G.s.k. '14

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Today's Ghost Writer at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is Jen from Blog it or Lose It!
Jen gives us a brief introduction to one of my favorite writers Edgar Allen Poe ... here is the poem which she put on her post for today's challenge and inspiration:

            A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM.

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?

 

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