The Dream

by Dayran

 

 

 

 

 

Like the tall tales of a Sinbad

Where diamonds are rock sized.

A Bal who thought himself the son

Of a god that is almighty in heaven.

The Mayans who gave their hearts

On the stone steps of sacrifice.

The Nubians who figured self, world,

Of a Copernicus who claimed earth's place,

A Jerusalem that was thought the home.

The living void of the Mussalman,

The Tao of the Oriental in virginity,

Puranams, that Indics claimed literal,

We, the people, come from all these.

To set up a government and society,

That may grow, transform and be,

That which we are ... in the all,

And the all of the experience of being.

That we divine a god to oversee us

In our activities and love lives.

May he long live in our hearts

And the mind that he helped create.

 

 

 

Reviews

[Brandon S. Whitten]

Some take writing too seriously. Thought this was an excellent read and write.

[Sami Khalil]

Your poems transform our understanding of the old world and the new one and how we all descended from those civilizations . Great writes dear poet...

[Dean]

Your writing seems to be entirely in the form of a monologue (from what I have seen of it) and one requires a bit of gear-shifting to approach it. As such, you probably need to be a bit more cognizent of sentence structure, if only to assist the reader in following. The fact that you have something to say, of course, is refreshing, since many of the poets I read are far more careless. You may be sure that I shall be returning to your page again. The thoughts are rewarding.

[Cristina Moldoveanu]

May it be like you said, Dayran. But I can relate more to the statement Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas. I think God is more powerful, he created us, he did not help to this creation. Man is sometimes too proud. But the allusions to our civilization's fights, deeds and misdeeds are well chosen. Like Valéry said "Nous autres, civilisations, nous savons maintenant que nous sommes mortelles".

[Shin ( formerly known as ) Bidayah]

Don't you mean maintenant?

[Cristina Moldoveanu]

Thanks Shin, I corrected.