Your hair is lost in the forest,
your feet touching mine.
Asleep you are bigger than the night,
but your dream fits within this room.
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Outside a taxi passes with its load of ghosts. The river that runs by is always running back. it's great wrote great 10+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I would like to see this poem in the original Spanish, because I suspect something was lost in the translation. Some of this makes no sense. Just admit it, people, instead of blindly praising every poem they choose for poem of the day.
The river that runs by is always running back. Will tomorrow be another day? it's an extraordinary poem with deep philosophical insight. Chandan
A highly imaginative poem nicely executed. Nice presentation.
Great sketch of a thought blended with togetherness and awareness of moment.
Your feet touching mine! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
I agree with poet Patricia Grantham: This is a 'poem of deep imaginations and thoughts'.
Asleep you are bigger than the night, but your dream fits within this room. How much we are who are so little! These lines I relate to. How thoroughly occupied, entralled, we can be with another person or wrapped up in ourselves—and then we get another perspective. -GK
The river a symbol of time as it runs always and runs back. A great and thought provoking image.
As if I'm in jailed of my predecessor's phantom! All of them pull me down and back but this world runs and runs ahead forcibly....! excellent theme and writing
There is always a question for tommorow, so let's better today and now. Good
Your hair is lost in the forest the poem starts and words of flow in such beauty and it is great.
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