Sifting through some of my older poetry I found a favorite of mine from 1983, that’s probably before some of you were born. And no I don’t feel old for having said that, it was merely an observation..lol.
I remember when I wrote this, I even remember where I was and what I was supposed to be doing at the time that I wrote this one. It was a week before school was out for the summer and my mind was already looking forward to the time when I could sleep in.
I was ninth grade, it was during my fifth period Zoology class and we were supposed to watching a movie but my mind wandered a bit and instead. And within the dim light cast by the projector, I wrote this particular poem.
To Dream
6-1-1983
by Joelle Wilson
To Dream is to hope is
to love is to dream.
To dream is to see things
other people can’t or won’t see.
To dream is to reach out
to feel what surrounds you.
to dream is to need to love
and the need to be loved.
To dream is to care and
share for and with others.
To dream is to see past
illusion into reality.
To dream is work out
not escape your problems.
To dream is to be the person
that you are, not what
someone else sees you as being.
To dream is fly on
great winds to reach the stars.
To dream is see the
Earth as she is.
To dream is to know who
you really are, don’t pretend.
To dream is to work toward
something.
To dream is to understand
your environment and yourself
better each day.
To dream is to find
Enchantment and Magic.
To dream is to be free to
be who you are, always.
To dream is simply:
to dream, to hope, to love,
to live, to care, to share,
to find, to be found,
to dream is to live
is to dream is to dream is to dream ……..
It’s a little rough but I liked it that way then and I decided not change anything about it now. Just a moment in time captured when my mind was drifting into the clouds. The picture seemed to fit.
🙂
This is exactly why I teach ninth grade! This is delightful, insughtful, and innocent. Don’t change a thing!
Thanks. 🙂