Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DREAMER IN ME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM


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First Line: The dreamer in me keeps on dreaming though
Last Line: Yet my friend and I go on talking as if there were nothing strange in it at all.
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


THE DREAMER in me keeps on dreaming though my lips are babbling and my eyes are watchful...
I may be in the railroad terminal speaking to a friend.
The dreamer is on a warm moist hill under the cloudsoft skies,
He feels the Earth moving and smells the flowers down to their roots,
He pierces the blue heavens with his wings.
Then I look round and think, how strange:
Stone walls: crowds: my friend and I...
Yet all of us seen by the dreamer as a little blur in the skies,
As a patter in immensity...
Where are we? where is Earth? where are the skies?
The dreamer shivers and laughs:
It is so miraculous, visionary and grotesque,
Such nonsense, this reality...
Yet my friend and I go on talking as if there were nothing strange in it at all.





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