Who Said Gods Have No Need To Dream?
Posted by spritzophrenia on May 9, 2011
I’m downloading the “Batman” (1966) TV series, to further my 12 y/o’s cultural education. I’ve already shown him a few of the original Star Trek series 
Shakespeare schmakesmear! Speaking of high culture…
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Gods
Who said Gods have no need to dream?
They dream darkest and most,
their night eyes inflaming a realm
their waking weeps as lost.
Chafing through torture of control
burning mastery, they serve;
sleeping in soul made mortal
embrace their human love.
The lonelier their peaks of cloud
the closer their dreams come
to warm plain and peopled hillside
– Gods most have need to dream.
Janet Frame, from The Pocket Mirror
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