Poem

Echo of My Dreams

My dreams are my breath,

And my breath a mingling of fire and light,

Fire that melts the heart and breeds each keen sensation.

Then overflows my spirit with knowledge and insight,

And light that turns darkness luminous and clothes the bare with radiance.

My dreams are meanings of my feeling— they visit from beyond eternity like shades that settle before me unawares; varied images console my soul when fate assails, that I may gather strength and fight again.

In fear I trial courage and boldness, learning how to be when life has need of me. My dreams are my imagination, born with me, taught me to laugh and weep, opened philosophy's gate—I learned to weep with consolation's smile upon my lips.

My dreams are my sheltering shade, my warmth, my steadfast faith, my deep mute tenderness.
My dreams are the spiritual nourishment from which I draw strength and vigor.
My dreams are the flame that ever summons me to labor for love, security, and peace.
My dreams are the link connecting life to art, bridging what I know and what I know not.
My dreams are the thoughts from which I draw healing whenever time offers its bitter cup of strife.
My dreams are my poetry.

And poetry is the warmth that flows through me, making you love life and feel existence grand.

Poetry

Is the whisper of my heart and shadow of my feeling.

Poetry

Is my soul's colloquy when with white wings it soars through boundless worlds to grant eternity's secrets—I feel a heart larger than existence, had existence heart become.

Poetry: my blood.

I bleed it from my heart to give the world when the world needs life's warmth; it flows in drops upon the page as words, each word more than meaning, each meaning a tale distilled from ore of thought, overflowing mercy and peace upon creation.

When the heart melts, blood drops fall;

Warmth of soul pours forth—my dreams tell their tale, and life responds in echo!

Here dreams return to my breast as music, and to existence—an echo!

Poetry

Echo of My Dreams

Publisher Taawun Press
Page count 163
Publication date 1936

Poems of the Book

A full list of all the poems from this book
Love of the Impossible Confusion A Salute to Farouk To My Mother The Prisoner Beautiful Dream Echoes of my Breath Moon Greeting Life Cries The Wretched Beauty Reproach To the Forgetful Spring Hope Grant Me An Artist Wish The Roaming Bird A Passing Reflection The Thirsty Soul The Enchanter On the Shores of Aswan The Wandering One O Nightingale The Lamenting Bird Where To? Despair and Hope Reflections of Solitude I Adore You Birds of Spring O Heart To the Artist Between Me and God Do You Remember? I Wish From Beyond the Graves I Complain to My God

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