Comments on: My dream about learning to dance https://www.vianegativa.us/2013/09/my-dream-about-learning-to-dance/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Bonta https://www.vianegativa.us/2013/09/my-dream-about-learning-to-dance/#comment-41041 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:18:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=24688#comment-41041 In reply to barleybooks.

Whoa. Yes, the cult of relics seems odd, doesn’t it? Until we think of the pilgrimages we moderns make to visit museums and stare at pieces of art — and how much those artworks cost.

]]> By: barleybooks https://www.vianegativa.us/2013/09/my-dream-about-learning-to-dance/#comment-41038 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:00:27 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=24688#comment-41038 I keep coming back to this. It’s a lovely piece of writing. The metamorphosis at the end is such a beautiful surprise. And I love the concept of a pilgrimage to visit all the lost fingers of the saint. Just been reading about St Hugh of Lincoln, who stole a finger from one of Mary Magdalene’s hands, kept as a holy relic in a French monastery, by biting it off …

]]> By: Luisa A. Igloria https://www.vianegativa.us/2013/09/my-dream-about-learning-to-dance/#comment-41025 Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:47:37 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=24688#comment-41025 I think your dream and the resultant poem are both beautiful, like two faces of the same woman (or tree) you’ve turned around to find at the end of both dream and dance. Had I been the one to have such a dream, I imagine I would feel lobbed from behind by that ball… Thanks Dave.

]]> By: Joan Mazza https://www.vianegativa.us/2013/09/my-dream-about-learning-to-dance/#comment-41024 Sun, 01 Sep 2013 14:16:09 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=24688#comment-41024 Dreams are metaphors conveying insights from your unconscious. Only you know what they mean in waking life. Suggestion: Tune in to your emotions in this dream and ask yourself what feels like that in waking life. What are you learning now and you should go slower?
(No need to answer me; these questions are for you.)
I’m the author of three books on dreaming and taught dream workshops for oven ten years. The metaphors of dream led me to write and study poetry.

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