tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16886892.post113525766722927637..comments2023-09-23T16:10:03.527-04:00Comments on Singing Moon: Dream fever XIIIcoyotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13849975141730668288noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16886892.post-1135294760241533862005-12-22T18:39:00.000-05:002005-12-22T18:39:00.000-05:00Not you, Nonny... I'll tell you the story, sometim...Not you, Nonny... I'll tell you the story, sometime.<BR/><BR/>And Lucy, do you remember when I told you that many of these poems were based on dreams?<BR/><BR/>Some -- especially those in the <I>Dream Fever</I> sequence -- started as nightmares. Which, after all, are a side of dreams -- a side of ourselves -- that we must acknowledge. We don't need to act them out, or even understand them, just realize that we're all darkness and light. From everything I can tell, you choose light, already, but that doesn't mean there's not a little dark, too... shadowing that makes the sunlight stand out all the more.<BR/><BR/>For me, writing nightmares was a way to place them outside of myself, so I could look at them rather than just react. Someone once told me that the most surprising thing about this poem was the calmness of the voice. (Someone else told me, "Funny, you don't <I>look</I> like an axe murderer..." But they got my motivation for writing it quite wrong.) The comment about calmness surprised <I>me</I>, at first. But writing about nightmares calmly was a way to deal with disturbing things. It still is...coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13849975141730668288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16886892.post-1135281092588003492005-12-22T14:51:00.000-05:002005-12-22T14:51:00.000-05:00This wouldn't bother me quite so much if I didn't ...This wouldn't bother me quite so much if I didn't have green eyes and long dark hair! Have I done something to bug you lately?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16886892.post-1135274026566433462005-12-22T12:53:00.000-05:002005-12-22T12:53:00.000-05:00I wish I had the courage to write poetry or prose ...I wish I had the courage to write poetry or prose about my nightmares too, Coyote. I've been told by some people to write them down, as short stories, sans twists. The courage to do that has eluded me as these nightmares haunt me passionately, in my waking life.etherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10765317566611969814noreply@blogger.com