Travels in a Dreamey World

By Dreamey Aurora

The poems explore relationships – with ourselves, with partners, with friends and with family. There are also poems just about being. Most of this collection will speak to each person at some level. I hope everyone finds their favorite and it stays with them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Sep 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9781665747233

Dreamey Aurora

Dawn's interest in words began at a young age. Dr. Seuss taught her rhymes were fun. Early in high school, Dawn found the writing of William Blake. She fell in love with his poetry; how he could paint a scene, and elicit feelings in the way he put words together. She has always kept that in mind for her prose writing as well as for her poetry. In her teens and twenties, she had poems published in anthologies and two locally published magazines. Along the way, she continued to write prose and lost her passion for poetry. This is her second published book.

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ISBN: 978-1-6657-4724-0 (sc)

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Archway Publishing rev. date: 09/11/2023

Dedication

I want to thank everyone who has continually encouraged me to continue writing and to continue to show my work. I am very inspired when people point out to me that my poetry helped them with whatever they were trying to deal with. And I want to thank all of you, even those who are still trying to figure out which poems are about them because they are positive, they are in here - thank you for all your encouragement.

Epigraph

It is advisable that a person know at least three things: Where they are, where they are going, and what they had to do under the circumstances.

- John Ruskin.

Prologue

I often write about my writing at the end. Today I want to start at the beginning.

When I was young, I enjoyed the dancing of words across pages as they rhymed and sang to me. I admit, that I didn’t always want the cadence and timing to be the same, I liked it when the authors would mix it up a bit. Many poets and authors in general are amazing at keeping the tempo, meter and rhythm consistent through all their work. That isn’t me. I write what I feel, and how the meter feels as it flows from my mind and my hands. This can cause problems with the more sensitive, and I apologize up front.

Thoughts, words, phrases, passages don’t always flow exactly as we want, nor exactly as we always expect. Often my poems will start one way and suddenly veer right or left; but it feels right.

I’ve had more than a few people swear that my poems are about them. Specifically. I think it is great writing that allows the reader to feel they are a part of the writing; that it is about them somehow. Every piece always has the writer in it, but not always those around them. More precisely, those around the writer aren’t always showing up where one would expect. Even those times when I MEANT to write about a specific person, my mind would wander. It isn’t bad to allow the wander; it simply makes the poem different and have a different result. It means that even when I had someone in mind, it isn’t a true picture of what or how I think of that person