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Post one of your poems about dreams.

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Find and post a GOOD audio or video for any of these poems.

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Find and post a GOOD audio or video for any of these poems.

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READ ME: Tips for writing a poem about dreams....

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READ ME: Tips for writing a poem about dreams....

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This may help you come up with an idea about a "dream poem"

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Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
-Langston Hughes

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DREAMS in the dusk,
Only dreams closing the day
And with the day's close going back
To the gray things, the dark things,
The far, deep things of dreamland.

Dreams, only dreams in the dusk,
Only the old remembered pictures
Of lost days when the day's loss
Wrote in tears the heart's loss.

Tears and loss and broken dreams
May find your heart at dusk.

-Carl Sandburg

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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

-Langston Hughes

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I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the
attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth;

I dream'd that was the new City of Friends;

Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust
love—it led the rest;

It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of
that city,

And in all their looks and words.
-Walt Whitman

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I dwell in Possibility –

A fairer House than Prose –

More numerous of Windows –

Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –

Impregnable of eye –

And for an everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –

For Occupation – This –

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

To gather Paradise

-Emily Dickinson

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What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore—

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over—

like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?
-Langston Hughes

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To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me-
That is my dream!

To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening...
A tall, slim tree...
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.
-Langston Hughes

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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 oru 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?
-Edgar Allan Poe

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Which poem resonates with you this week and why?  Reply in the comments.

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Which poem resonates with you this week and why?  Reply in the comments.

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here is an audio version of this poem. Enjoy!

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Poem, first published in 1923 and in the public domain. Images from wikimedia commons. Recording is mine.

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Here is a recitation of Whitman's poem. The video only provides audio, as all we see is a black screen.

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A dramatic reading of "I Dream'd In A Dream" by Walt Whitman spoken by Annie Delehanty

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Just for fun, I attached this scene from one of my favorite Disney movies ever, Tangled

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An Idea

A jumbled thought

An aspiration

A simple want

The work went in

Because you believed

The satisfaction of

A dream achieved
-Mary Walton

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A Dream within a Dream, by Edgar Allan Poe

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A Dream within a Dream, by Edgar Allan Poe

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This is an audio version of the poem I chose it because the narrator has a British accent and I love listening to people with those accents.

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Edgar Allan Poe ~ A Dream Within A Dream, Poem with text

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There is also an article attached when yo click on the photo about why we have dreams that I thought was interesting.

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Peaceful scene
Blue sky turns black
Falls away piece by piece
Crushing weight turns you back to reality

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I saw a curious little fish swim up to my dream.
It sniffed, but it found nothing, and went back swimming in the stream.

There was a monarch butterfly came sniffing at it too,
But sadly, was dissatisfied, so away away it flew.

Then bumblebees, then dragonflies, then squirrels and birds and bears,
They looked at it, but shook their heads.
There must be nothing there.

I went over to look myself,
To see if something's wrong.
But no, it was an image of beauty,
Its sound was angels' song!

And then I began to realize,
My dream can only be seen through My Own Eyes.

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from the original Disney Cinderella movie. I think that Disney is a huge example of dreams, in almost every one of their movies is a theme of following your dreams and attempting them even if you think that it's impossible. Tangled, Cinderella, and Frozen all have following your dreams as a big theme.

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Cinderella | A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes | Lyric Video | Disney Sing Along

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A kiss on her head
A whisper"good night"
She closes her eyes and hopes that she might
return to the magical place in her dreams.
A place where everything you wish can come true
Just ask for anything and it will appear for you
A wonderful place, She doesn't want to leave
This dream land where everything she wants she can keep
But then her alarm clock calls out BEEP BEEP

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They dreamed of leaving this idle town
running away to the
big city

They never did leave
this rotten town
their dreams remained hidden
away in their idle minds

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The 100 Mile Dream

One thought starts a journey

Of a 100 mile length

As the gun goes off

The soft shuffle of feet;

Drowns Out all other sounds

Slowly, I settle into a rythme

The miles slowly pass by

One by one

As I steadily move forward

I look up and I’m off trail

Panic sets in

I must remain calm

As I retrace my steps

Back to the trail

As darknesses fingers

Reach towards me

I find comfort in;

In the all encompassing darkness

My headlamps gentle light

Guiding me forward

As I continue into the night

As fatigue sets in

I know I can’t give in

To the yearning wan’t for sleep

The sun’s warming rays pierce;

Through the trees

The light of a new day

Brings about new hope

As the last aid station comes into view

I know the final miles are ahead

The twinge in my left calf has morphed into a stabbing pain;

With every step I feel it telling me to stop

The idea of dropping out comes to my mind;

The sleeping bags laying in the aid station seem to beckon;

Telling me to lay down

I hear loud beeping

As I open my eyes

I realize it was all just a dream

With a big question for me to answer

I know of only one way to truly answer this question
-Owen Koppe