Anthology

of Poetry

Dreams

Batu Klont

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Dreams

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

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I Dreamed In A Dream

I dreamed in a dream

I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the

whole of the rest of the earth,

I dreamed that was the new city of Friends,

Nothing was greater there

than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,

It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that

city,

And in all their looks and words.

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Walt Whitman

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A Dream Within A DreamTake this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow--

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand--

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep--while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! Can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

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Edgar Allan Poe

Dream Variation

To fling my arms wide

In some place of the sun,

To whirl and to dance

Till the white day is done.

Then rest at cool evening

Beneath a tall tree

While night comes on gently,

Dark like me–

That is my dream!

To fling my arms wide

In the face of the sun,

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Dance!  Whirl!  Whirl!

Till the quick day is done.

Rest at pale evening . . .

A tall, slim tree . . .

Night coming tenderly

Black like me. Langston Hughes

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The Dream Keeper

Bring me all of your dreams, 

you dreamer; 

bring me all your 

Heart melodies 

that I may wrap them 

in a blue cloud-cloth 

Away from the too-rough fingers 

of the world.

Langston Hughes

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A Dream

In visions of the dark night

I have dreamed of joy departed-

But a waking dream of life and light

Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! What is not a dream by day

To him whose eyes are cast

On things around him with a ray

Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream- that holy dream,

While all the world were chiding,

Hath cheered me as a lovely beam

A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,

So trembled from afar-

What could there be more purely bright?

In Truth's daystar?

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Edgar Allan Poe

First Dream

Sleep baby

What you see

In your dreams...

I see millions of cheerful balloons

Flying in the sky...

Lifting me out of my bed

Putting me into 100 years old dads’

puppy love.

Batu Klont

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Dreams

I run in the night,

I jump on the stars,

I am in a dream,

That I have never seen.

I fly through the sky,

I see all kinds of butterflies,

The harp plays the sounds,

While I lay on the snow white clouds.

The clouds fade away,

I realize I have to go away,

Because I have to wake up,

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For another good day.

Batu Klont

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A Bear Dream

I dreamt of being a bear

I am lightening on my feet,

I cannot take a seat.

I am hungry like a bear but,

I am rotten in my teeth,

I brush my white little bones,

And hope they make me eat,

Because I am craving for meat,

After opening my mouth,

Everybody starts to scream,

And then I wake,

Out of a dream.

Batu Klont

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Rhyming Dream

I dreamed of a God

I wished for a dog

I went for a jog

Then I sat on a log

I played football

I saw a mole

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Digging under my goal

I want to see my soul

I see green leaves

My mom said I have to pull up my sleeves

I saw a white sheep

Now I have to leave...

Batu Klont

Angel

I dreamed of an angel,

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It's like a wingless flower,

It was flying with its snow white wings

While it sings

It had very beautiful ring

It was the Gods present for me

To dream of an angel so beautiful

Now i have to wake up and go to school

And to begin another beautiful day

Instead of staying in my bed and lay...

Batu Klont

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Floating Away

While I lay in bed and float asleep,

There are worlds so great and mighty,

One is never sure ether they are good or bad,

They are untraveled roads ahead,

Nothing is real but seems so right,

Sometimes I wake up sweating with a fright,

A dream can be a paradise not to forget,

But also a bubble that burst in my bed.

Batu Klont

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An anthology of dreams.....

By Batu Klont

This poem anthology is about dreams and has lots of

different fascinating poems written by Batu Klont

and other famous poets such as Edgar Allan Poe,

Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman.

This anthology has rhymes, metaphor and more

good for young readers and adults.

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