Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ONLY THE DREAM IS REAL, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS


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First Line: Only the dream is real. There is no plan
Last Line: And flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


Only the dream is real. There is no plan
Transcending even a rose's timid glory,
A cricket's summer song. The ways of man
Are stupors of the flesh, and transitory.

There is no truth but dreams; yet man must spend
His gift of quiet days in storm and stress,
Unheeding that a single breath will end
With one swift stroke the hoax of worldliness.

Only the dream will last. Some distant day
The wheels will falter, and the silent sun
Will see the last beam leveled to decay, And all man's futile clangor spent and

done.
Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone,
And flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.





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