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| scene from Phantom of the Opera, 1925 |
Do you close your eyes and wait for
the show, giddy with
anticipation?
Do you dive into your bed
grab handfuls of covers like popcorn
into your greedy hands?
Sink down into lush
mind mush
watching it all on the black screen
of night?
Do you dream in black and white?
Do you fight the fall into silent film
non-existence
your movements exaggerated but going
nowhere
screaming
with no sound?
Do you know the face
of your phantom?
Would you love him to free him
from the catacombs of
your nightmares?
submitted for dVerse Poets Pub, Poetics, Shhh...Silent Films
11 comments:
Wow, that is intense. It gives me chills.. A good read!
ooooh, loved where you went with this and now I really want to go back to bed :).
um...yeah if we can evict him from my dreams that would be a plus....i unfortunately know my phantom all too well...smiles.
Dreams as silent movies? Yes, sometimes it feels like that specially when it is a scary one. I just want to wake up and snap out of it ~
yikes, I think I fit into the latter description and YES, I would love to free him from the catacombs of my nightmares. Great poem for the photo you chose. Very eerie and intense like the Phantom himself!
Somewhere in the back of my subconscious, there's a little voice that cries out when a dream starts saying "Oh snap! Here we go again!"
My dreams are rarely fun.
My daydreams are a blast.
But my dreams suck bad.
I like this a lot, lm. The progression of questions starts out so innocently, almost playfully, but then turns serious and shadowed with that same sense of otherness we get watching that earlier, soundless, more dramatic world.
love that third line about the popcorn, fantastic write of dreamland
This is delightful. I especially love the "lush mind mush"!
I dream in color. I don't care what the "experts" say.
Nice
I like the way you link the dream and those film archetypes. Your color section is especially good. Love the bedding/ dreaming/popcorn concept.
btw
I do have cinematic dreams, linear. and in color.
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