Dreamers Poem by Leah Ayliffe

Dreamers



Screams, passion, chaos
Smoke, fire in the streets.
Walking together united against everything ugly
Until they become the enemy.

Above in the air
An apartment
A room.
A moment.
Stillness and silence.
In a tent made of bedsheets and tapestries
Low burning candles
3 naked bodies intertwined in dreams.
She holds the hose from the kitchen stove on her chest
Releasing gas to fill the space,
The lungs.

Love exhausted.
Love escapes.

The noise carries on down below in the streets yelling for liberty.
Cannot say for certain who is truly free.

Friday, February 26, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: dream,free
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Inspired by the movie The Dreamers
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 27 February 2016

Yes, I know that movie! I wanted to like it more than I did. Bernardo Bertolucci is one of my favorite directors. His Last Tango in Paris had a great scene in which Marlon Brando first reviled the corpse of his wife and then breaks down and wants to join her in death. I've never forgotten that scene. But the three kids in The Dreamers never get beyond posturing even though the streets are burning. They live vicariously through films. But their passions are curiously stalled. I was in Paris just after the Revolution of 1968 and the students pulled me into their activities. And they were really committed and they adopted me for a time as one of their own. It was a time of fervor, we lived a larger life than we thought possible, the rumor was Jean Luc Godard was filming nearby, not dreamers, activists - trying to jump-start a utopia, We've got 30 years to make a New World, one of the leaders kept saying.

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Paul Davies 26 February 2016

Indeed. Indeed. I am often in Washington, D.C., which place glistens with the ghosts of liberties defended, injustice protested, battles that will never, should never, be questioned, and courage and lives spent on nothing at all. Contrast the very moving Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial across the way, the pillars of the World War II Memorial down the Mall.

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