To Dark Eyes Dreaming

Dedicated to Zilpha Keatley Snyder author of a poem by the same name, I will print 
it here.

Dreams go fast and far these days.
They go arrayed in lights or 
In the dust of stars.
Dreams, these days, go fast and far.
Dreams are young, these days,
   or very old,
 They can be black or blue or gold.
They need no special charts,
    nor any fuel.
It seems, only one rule applies,
    to all our dreams-
They will not fly except in open sky.
 A fenced-in dream will die.

From the Random House Book of poetry for children.


Tonight make sweet dreams fly.
Across your vast spinning creation
Slumber at peace, bubbly and rare

Magic becomes builder's sigh.
Building becomes your sation-
Life and dark eyes are fair

Swim on orcas, surf as fins
Split the starfires in embers, hun.
Tomorrow holds your dreams there!

By Doris Culverhouse in dedication to Zilpha Snyder
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Kendrick Avatar
June 22, 2010 at 1:33 PM
Neat write my child..Let your being be filled with inspiration to overflow and bless us with a poem from the ink of the abundance..Mom
Reed Avatar
June 22, 2010 at 11:03 AM
I admire the way you outline how dreams must be free in order to prosper. Let them fly - Alan
Clark Avatar
June 21, 2010 at 4:30 AM
Lovely write Doris! Jeralynn
Mehta Avatar
June 20, 2010 at 5:31 PM
A nice dedication to Zilpha Snyder
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