DREAMS

DREAMS


What are dreams? Are they conjectures?
Imagination’s overtures?
An insane flight of mere fancy?
A sign of mental infancy?

Those who dream perpetually
May be quaint but it’s really
True, those who dream once in a while,
Do have a mind that is fertile.

The needle of sewing machine,
Basic organic ring, benzene,
Were both visualized in dreams.
When, in sleep, mind has rarest gleams.

Dreams do decrease life’s drudgery,
They are like spice to life’s curry.
Dreams are balm for the aching heart,
In love, they play a lovely part.

Dreams are, in fact, what make a man.
First, he must dream before he can
Realize them by working hard.
Their lack would, man’s progress, retard.



• * Written in aabb, 8-8-8-8 format.

• Initially written as entry 410322 in FAITH, NATURE & INSPIRATIONAL, "FAITH, NATURE & INSPIRATIONAL" . Posted as the present static item on 22 July 2008.

* Elias Howe invented the sewing machine needle after dreaming of it in a dream in 1844. The full story can be viewed at: http://www.geocities.com/madhukar_shukla/crebook/08.html

• Kekule discovered the benzene ring, which is the basis of all organic chemistry, after dreaming of it in a dream in 1861. The full story can be viewed at: http://www.geocities.com/madhukar_shukla/crebook/23.html


M C Gupta
3 March 2006