Secret Dreams- a Poe Patchwork Poem
Whose heart-strings are a lute
embalmed in their echoing songs!
When Nature sleeps and stars are mute
at midnight, in the month of June.
A mystery, and a dream,
perchance is woven in thy sleep;
for the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Again- again- again-
Know thou the secret of a spirit
its echo dwelleth and will dwell,
while the stars that oversprinkle
tempt the waters from their bed.
Deep in the heart whose hope has died--
the leaves- withering and sere;
the ancient dramatist of eminence,
the music of the spheres.
Admiring Nature's universal throne
banners yellow, glorious, golden.
The requiem for the loveliest dead
sanctified in their Elysian fire.
An Eternity should bring the morrow
an Eden of bland repose...
of beauty- chasms, and caves, and Titan woods.
I scarce know which to prize most high.
An ivory throne, at morn -
at noon - at twilight dim -
and Mid-time of night.
Divine- a talisman- an amulet-
the mystery which binds me still
hath left me broken-hearted.
A burning blush came o'er thee
beneath the tamarind tree.
All my nightly dreams-
-breathe-
and veil thine eyes;
are but a dream within a dream
into thine hour of secrecy.
All from the works of Edgar Allen Poe, pieced and patched together from many poems. I
have a list of the poems but there is not enough space to post them here. This type of poem
is created of clipped lines and phases from other poems and is called a Cento or Patchwork
Poem.
Copyright © Jean Marble | Year Posted 2010
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