A Dream Within a Dream
“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants.- nabokov
Poems & Poets
A Dream Within a Dream
TO A VULCAN
by Sherna Com.èrford
There is a sharing of self,
Reacliing...
Talting...
Joining...
Love.
There is understanding, and quiet pride.
Wild, passionate shouting.
A seelcing and a growing.
Life, and a nurpose in living.
There is sorrow and pain.
A drawing in,
Weeping,
An agony,
Lespair.
Sometimes there is death.
I weep for you. You will not weep for yourself. You lcnow sorrow, have lcnown love,
And deny it.
Is life worth this price?
A man-machine would pay no price.
Would die. What logic bids you live?
La Géante
Du temps que la Nature en sa verve puissante
Concevait chaque jour des enfants monstrueux,
J'eusse aimé vivre auprès d'une jeune géante,
Comme aux pieds d'une reine un chat voluptueux.
J'eusse aimé voir son corps fleurir avec son âme
Et grandir librement dans ses terribles jeux;
Deviner si son coeur couve une sombre flamme
Aux humides brouillards qui nagent dans ses yeux;
Parcourir à loisir ses magnifiques formes;
Ramper sur le versant de ses genoux énormes,
Et parfois en été, quand les soleils malsains,
Lasse, la font s'étendre à travers la campagne,
Dormir nonchalamment à l'ombre de ses seins,
Comme un hameau paisible au pied d'une montagne.
— Charles Baudelaire
The Giantess
At the time when Nature with a lusty spirit
Was conceiving monstrous children each day,
I should have liked to live near a young giantess,
Like a voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen.
I should have liked to see her soul and body thrive
And grow without restraint in her terrible games;
To divine by the mist swimming within her eyes
If her heart harbored a smoldering flame;
To explore leisurely her magnificent form;
To crawl upon the slopes of her enormous knees,
And sometimes in summer, when the unhealthy sun
Makes her stretch out, weary, across the countryside,
To sleep nonchalantly in the shade of her breasts,
Like a peaceful hamlet below a mountainside.
— William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)
You And no one is going to be an American citizen.
I want to be a good reason to get better than your parents!
The only thing that you wake up is is a critique of the rings of popcorn.
It was pretty much the same stuff as being anything.
you are familiar with your disagreement with potato chips
The only thing that you wake in space and is a critique for the book.
It depends on what you want to say.
Dare to not think politically! Do not think in terms of right and left! Think in terms of right and wrong! Give up on the idea of your ilk winning! Grow up! There are ways of looking at things other than what you are used to! It's not about just you! It's not always about what you want! Caring about others is not a bad idea! Caring about other people is the thing to want! Give up on your fixation on owning your opponents! It's not about you! Why can't you understand that?
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