There are no dreams in the deepest sleep
for deepest sleep is purest rest
and I need rest most of all from my dreams
which are always of the restless kind
My dreams are dreamt when only half asleep
the hypnotic state of the physiological psychologists
when the electroencephalograph traces a jagged line
the jumbled signals of multitudinous nerves
recalling images past-remembered
but long forgotten
Half-remembered names of half-remembered faces
flash across my dreaming eyes
ideas and false linkages
possible predictions for the future
© GERALD ENGLAND
Composed: Ackworth, 1st March 1967
Publications
1972 Datr (UK)
1992 STEALING KISSES (Hyde, New Hope International)
1993 Apostrophe (UK)
1993 Dream International Quarterly (USA)
1997 Temporary Sanity (Internet)
1999 Unlikely Stories (Internet)
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