Comments on: read write prompt #100: turning dreams into poetry, by celebrity poet bruce covey

By: tamrahays

tamrahays — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:34:29 +0000

Oops. Posted in the wrong place. Sorry.

By: tamrahays

tamrahays — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:33:51 +0000

That’s “here IT is.” :-\

By: tamrahays

tamrahays — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:32:50 +0000

Here is is - In the Quad

By: Paul Oakley

Paul Oakley — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:50:59 +0000

I know a beautiful old woman, now suffering deterioration from Alzheimer’s, for whom dream work was very important. Me, I only extremely rarely am even aware that I have dreamed. When I am aware I have dreamed, the content is only a big static-y question mark with sparks flying off it for a few seconds before dying completely.

I don’t remember a single dream in the 25 years since, at age 24, the 15 years of the same recurring nightmare came to an end. That one repeating nightmare provided the basis for my full theology and philosophy of life, as well as my understanding of art. I don’t have room for any more dreams.

As for my waking rituals, let’s just say they do not include jotting anything in a notebook.

In any case, I haven’t decided yet how to handle this prompt. I don’t want to ignore it, but I can’t follow it either. So…

By: Zouxzoux

Zouxzoux — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:18:00 +0000

I really hope poets will rally to this challenge. No, it isn’t easy to recall your dreams but my suggestion is to keep a notebook by your bed. When you first wake up, jot down what you remember. The first few moments are *really* important.

By: intractability

intractability — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:36:05 +0000

Sounds like an interesting poetic experience, although I must say , not one tailored to my interests, I seldom if ever recall any of my dreams. I think it will make for some fun, wacky reading. Great idea but perhaps the next prompt might be more up my alley.

By: Zouxzoux

Zouxzoux — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:59:51 +0000

Thanks, Nathan. I found it thru the wunnerful Bing! Awesome site, great poetry.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:50:37 +0000

The link should be working now, Zouxzoux.

By: Zouxzoux

Zouxzoux — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:18:35 +0000

BTW – the link to Coconut doesn’t work.

By: Zouxzoux

Zouxzoux — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:09:27 +0000

Thank you for this!
About 2 weeks ago I woke up with a comment from a dream reverberating in my brain. I wrote it down. The next day I awoke with another and wrote it down. The third day I awoke with a vivid image from my dream, I wrote it down. I decided that something is in my unconscious trying to get out and, if I have patience, I may end up with a pretty wild darn poem out of it. I actually posted here on the wire asking if anyone had used their dreams for poetry.

I’m not sure I’ll have anything by next Thursday, though. We’ll see.

By: Therese L. Broderick

Therese L. Broderick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:12:21 +0000

How can I not worship a poet who says,”spend a day or two or a week or two on each line”? That quote goes into my writing notebook right next to Seamus Heaney. Thank you, Mr. Covey.
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I once brought one of my dream-poems to a poet who knows a lot about dream-poems. She said everything in the dream might be ME. Everything.