Comments on: Poetry and Dreams http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/ Thoughts on Dreams, Life, and Spirit - by Anne Hill, D.Min. Wed, 16 May 2012 22:28:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Patricia (a/k/a Roswila) http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-6621 Patricia (a/k/a Roswila) Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:28:15 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/#comment-6621 Just came across this wonderful post! Love how you responded to your dream. And I, too, would love to read some of your poetry. BTW, have you ever written music in your dreams? I composed a chant (words and music) once in a dream and have led others in singing it. What a kick! :-) I agree with your sense that prose is on one end of a continuum, with poetry in the middle, and dreams at the other end. Maybe that's why I find writing poetry about my dreams somteimes helps decompress them. In this respect, you might be interested in a three-part post I just made to my blog (URL above), A DREAMKU PRIMER: Writing Haiku-Like Poems About Your Dreams. (Links to all three parts are just below my DAILY DREAMKU on the homepage.) I'm putting up a link in my sidebar to your blog. Just came across this wonderful post! Love how you responded to your dream. And I, too, would love to read some of your poetry. BTW, have you ever written music in your dreams? I composed a chant (words and music) once in a dream and have led others in singing it. What a kick! :-)

I agree with your sense that prose is on one end of a continuum, with poetry in the middle, and dreams at the other end. Maybe that’s why I find writing poetry about my dreams somteimes helps decompress them. In this respect, you might be interested in a three-part post I just made to my blog (URL above), A DREAMKU PRIMER: Writing Haiku-Like Poems About Your Dreams. (Links to all three parts are just below my DAILY DREAMKU on the homepage.)

I’m putting up a link in my sidebar to your blog.

]]> By: Robert Curry http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-3009 Robert Curry Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:18:47 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/#comment-3009 You're right, we're not all Emily Dickenson, although I'm glad there's at least one of her. Some poets do seem to do compression AND link it to external subjects -- W. S. Merwin comes to mind. And you are so right about facility with language being part gift and part lifelong practice. And not just in poetry, but in daily communication with others. I am reminded every day of the work I have yet to do in that regard, especially when it comes to people that I care about. One additional thought about compression...sometimes I worry that the content of emails can too easily be compressed, and lose nuance and tone and sometimes communicate the complete opposite of the intended meaning. So, one of my hopes in writing poetry is that precision in art-making with words will also improve my words-speaking-and-writing in other ways. --Robert You’re right, we’re not all Emily Dickenson, although I’m glad there’s at least one of her. Some poets do seem to do compression AND link it to external subjects — W. S. Merwin comes to mind.

And you are so right about facility with language being part gift and part lifelong practice. And not just in poetry, but in daily communication with others. I am reminded every day of the work I have yet to do in that regard, especially when it comes to people that I care about.

One additional thought about compression…sometimes I worry that the content of emails can too easily be compressed, and lose nuance and tone and sometimes communicate the complete opposite of the intended meaning. So, one of my hopes in writing poetry is that precision in art-making with words will also improve my words-speaking-and-writing in other ways.

–Robert

]]> By: Anne http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-2993 Anne Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:41:18 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/#comment-2993 Hi Robert, thanks for posting. You're right about over compressing poetry. Not all of us are Emily Dickenson, and really spare poetry takes too much work to access for most people--myself included. It just brings home the fact that facility with language is partly a gift, but mostly a lifelong practice. Writers just keep writing, ain't it the truth. Hi Robert, thanks for posting. You’re right about over compressing poetry. Not all of us are Emily Dickenson, and really spare poetry takes too much work to access for most people–myself included. It just brings home the fact that facility with language is partly a gift, but mostly a lifelong practice. Writers just keep writing, ain’t it the truth.

]]> By: Robert Curry http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-2976 Robert Curry Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:28:07 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/#comment-2976 Wow. Thank you for this entry. I have dabbled in poetry over the years, but recently decided it was time to get serious about it. You've illuminated some possible new paths and approaches for me as a writer. My own blog has lain fallow for too long. I do know what you mean about the joy of compression -- and the danger of too much compression -- in writing poetry. Sometimes feel that too much contemporary poetry is too compressed. And too abstract; too concerned with words as things stripped of any connection to this world or the broader flow of life...and too unconcerned with the reader. --Robert Wow. Thank you for this entry. I have dabbled in poetry over the years, but recently decided it was time to get serious about it. You’ve illuminated some possible new paths and approaches for me as a writer. My own blog has lain fallow for too long.

I do know what you mean about the joy of compression — and the danger of too much compression — in writing poetry. Sometimes feel that too much contemporary poetry is too compressed. And too abstract; too concerned with words as things stripped of any connection to this world or the broader flow of life…and too unconcerned with the reader.

–Robert

]]> By: Reya Mellicker http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-2957 Reya Mellicker Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:06:50 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/21/poetry-and-dreams/#comment-2957 I would love to read some of your poems. I bet they're great. I would love to read some of your poems. I bet they’re great.

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