Dreaming Up Daily Quote: 12/25/2020

As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; 

The centre moved, a circle strait succeeds,

 Another still, and still another spreads; 

Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace;

 His country next; and next all human race." 

 Alexander Pope

Happy Holidays, Everyone.

Dreaming Up Daily Quote 12/24/2020

“Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confused:

 Still by himself abused, or disabused; 

Created half to rise, and half to fall;

 Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;

 Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl’d:

 The glory, jest and riddle of the world.”

 Alexander Pope

Poetry Monday: Dream of Koa Returning

Dream of Koa Returning

 Sitting on the steps of that cabin

 that I had always known

 with its porch and gray-painted floorboards

 I looked out to the river

 flowing beyond the big trees

 and all at once you

 were just behind me

 lying watching me

 as you did years ago

 and not stirring at all

 when I reached back slowly

 hoping to touch your long amber fur

 and there we stayed without moving

 listening to the river

 and I wondered whether

 it might be a dream 

whether you might be a dream

 whether we both were a dream

 in which neither of us moved

--W.S. Merwin

This poem concerning a dog companion (but also about time and other things) comes from a section of poems concerning the dogs of his lifetime in Merwin's Pulitzer Prize winning 2009 book The Shadow of Sirius (Sirius is known as the dog star.)  Nevertheless the photo at the top is of a cat, also with amber fur.  We have a dog now, Howdy, to help us celebrate the Christmas season.  But before him was Pema the cat, of Christmases past, not forgotten nor undreamed about.