Filling the Well: Octavio Paz and Salvador Dalí

 

"Midsummer Night's Dream"       
Samuel A. Cousins, Minneapolis Institute of Art

 

Between what I dream and what I forget: poetry.

 

– Octavio Paz

 from the poem "Between what I see and what I say"

 

 

"Dreams of Dalí"

(Use the arrows in the upper-left corner for a 360º experience.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1eLeIocAcU&t=78s

 

 

 

April 1: John Muir

April 2: e.e. cummings and enra

April 3: Edith Wharton and Henri Matisse

April 4: Cesare Pavese 

April 5: Anton Chekhov and Cat Stevens

April 6: Ray Bradbury and... cats 

April 7: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Hanjin Song

April 8: Albert Einstein and John Bohannon

April 9: Florence Parry Heide and Andres Amador

April 10: Zelda Fitzgerald and Arvo Pärt

April 11: Elinor Wylie

April 12: David Ault and Imogen Heap

April 13: William Shakespeare and Alice Tzue

April 14: Bruce Garrabrandt and OK Go

April 15: Anne Kent Rush and Bill T. Jones

April 16: Carl Sandburg, Raymond Crowe, and Louis Armstrong

April 17: Jean Houston and Lunch Break Quartet

April 18: John Milton 

April 19: Dante Alighieri, Don Francis, and Gregory Alan Isakov

April 20: Theodore Roethke and Charles Reznikoff

April 21: Octavio Paz and Salvador Dalí

 

 

Two Line Tuesday: Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Rodstrom

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, 

we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

– Edgar Allan Poe

Two Line Tuesday: Arthur O'Shaughnessy

We are the music makers...

"Music" by ilona-veresk on deviantart.com

  

and we are the dreamers of dreams.

 – Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

DMC: "Twins" by George Heidenrich

© 2012 George Heidenrich.  All rights reserved.

This is the LAST WEEK to get me your Poem Movie (or any other visual representation) in response to Sylvia Vardell's and Janet Wong's ditty challenge for June.  Send your video or picture file to TodaysLittleDitty (at) gmail (dot) com, or host it yourself and just send me the link.  On Friday I'll have the end-of-month wrap-up and giveaway.  Wouldn't you love to own your own complimentary copy of THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR SCIENCE?  Here's your chance!  Don't let the opportunity slip by.

Two Line Tuesday: Harry Edwards

Banksy graffiti art: girl with the red balloon

We must teach our children 

to dream with their eyes open.

-Harry Edwards

 

Two Line Tuesday: C. S. Lewis

 

Idris Akdal, by ucmorlale

You are never too old to set another goal 

or to dream a new dream.

-C. S. Lewis

Dreams of My Father

In honor of Father's Day, I have a special guest on Today's Little Ditty-- my dear ol' dad.  I'm so grateful for the relationship I have with my father and am proud to share many of his personality traits.

Here we are many, many moons ago:

Sometimes I still feel like I'm piggybacking on his broad shoulders.  It's a comfortable place to be.  

One of the most wonderful things for me now that he's retired, is finding out things about him that I never knew before; like how much he, too, enjoys poetry and words, and the challenge of picking just the right ones to express his innermost musings.  The following is from a collection of about thirty poems that he wrote last year on the subject of dreams.  This is one of my favorites... and no, not just because it mentions li'l ol' me.

Permission

In my dreams I have permission

to go places and do things I cannot do

when I am awake.  For instance, last night

I went to a picnic in the rain and slush at my daughter’s friend’s house

on the beach at the lake on the far side of the community.  I did not

get wet.  I was not cold.  There were fish four feet long swimming in the water

near the rocks.  The umbrella did not work.

I saw it with my own (sleeping) eyes.

Try that when you’re awake.

(In My Dreams 3)

8 February 2012

© George A. Heidenrich. All rights reserved.

All my life, people have told me what a wonderful man my father is... as if I didn't already know.  Thanks, Dad.  I love you.

Whether dreaming, soul-searching, or lighthearted laughter is what you're after, please join Margaret at Reflections on the Teche for today's Poetry Friday roundup.