Dreams – CD – Ghost Write

 

Ghost Writer Week
for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is:

Ghost Writer #32 – Jen of  Blog It or Lose It
Prompt choice:
Edgar Allen Poe’s 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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Soul walks haunted beach
Drifting sand from wasted fists
Ebb and flow of dreams



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Prompt:
Edgar Allen Poe
A Dream Within A Dream