I rarely remember my dreams unless I wake up out of them in that witchy time of night before dawn between 4 and 5 am. Today’s prompt dives into dream dictionaries for inspiration. Here is Day 14 of NaPoWriMo for you.
Dream dictionaries have been around as long as people have had dreams. Interestingly, if you consult a few of them, they nearly always tend to have totally different things to say about specific objects or symbols. Dreams, unlike words themselves, don’t seem to be nicely definable! At any rate, today’s prompt is to write entries for an imaginary dream dictionary. Pick one (or more) of the following words, and write about what it means to dream of these things:
Teacup
Hammer
Seagull
Ballet slipper
Shark
Wobbly table
Dentist
Rowboat
Happy writing!
On Point
every little girl’s dream – almost –
tuile skirt, limned figure,
hair done in chignon.
So grown up. Limbering.
Bend. And Hold
before the mirror.
Move like a swan to the orchestra.
Collect your nutcracker.
Then the slippers pile up stage left.
Not singletons like Cinderella’s.
They never mention
the daily mending of splits and frays
the cost of bandaged toes
the bloody feet enpointe
anointed by performance art.
Copyright © 2018 Bee Smith
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Beautiful as always Bee ❤
Excellent read, this morning. 🙂
Thank you!
Lovely, Bee — and true too, as my thirteen years of ballet taught me well.