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The First Dream by Billy Collins

Posted by fayeroe on February 1, 2004, at 12:58:14

The First Dream

The Wind is ghosting around the house tonight
and as I lean against the door of sleep
I begin to think about the first person to dream,
how quiet he must have seemed the next morning

as the others stood around the fire
draped in the skins of animals
talking to each other only in vowels,
for this was long before the invention of consonants.

He might have gone off by himself to sit
on a rock and look into the mist of a lake
as he tried to tell himself what had happened,
how he had gone somewhere without going,

how he had put his arms around the neck
of a beast that the others could touch
only after they had killed it with stones,
how he felt its breath on his bare neck.

Then again, the first dream could have come
to a woman, though she would behave,
I suppose, much the same way,
moving off by herself to be alone near water,

except that the curve of her young shoulders
and the tilt of her downcast head
would make her appear to be terribly alone,
and if you were there to notice this,

you might have gone down as the first person
to ever fall in love with the sadness of another.

--Billy Collins

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Re: The First Dream by Billy Collins

Posted by Jai Narayan on February 4, 2004, at 20:08:38

In reply to The First Dream by Billy Collins, posted by fayeroe on February 1, 2004, at 12:58:14

Wow, you definately have your fingers on the pulse of the good poets....I love it.
So who is billy collins? Irish?
So nice, thank you.

Re: The First Dream by Billy Collins » Jai Narayan

Posted by fayeroe on February 5, 2004, at 6:36:11

In reply to Re: The First Dream by Billy Collins, posted by Jai Narayan on February 4, 2004, at 20:08:38

> Wow, you definately have your fingers on the pulse of the good poets....I love it.
> So who is billy collins? Irish?
> So nice, thank you.

He is American. Poet Laureate in 2001, I believe.
Very, very good........I grew up on a ranch and obtained books by riding down to a neighbor's house where he would fill a sack with treasures and I would take them home.......to my little room, where I would live in a magical world for days! I find poets through curiousity and by word of mouth. Boards like this provide a lot of
resources....Pat+

Re: The First Dream by Billy Collins

Posted by Jai Narayan on February 5, 2004, at 18:57:31

In reply to Re: The First Dream by Billy Collins » Jai Narayan, posted by fayeroe on February 5, 2004, at 6:36:11

Now that is interesting....I can see you holed-up in your home reading....reading. I love the idea of living in such a secure little abode. Well I must say you have shared with me about some of *the most* interesting poets...thank you so much.

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