Monday, January 13, 2003

The First Dream Comments

Rating: 4.8

The Wind is ghosting around the house tonight
and as I lean against the door of sleep
I begin to think about the first person to dream,
how quiet he must have seemed the next morning
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Billy Collins
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Joseph Pedulla 15 December 2017

Again, the foray into the hypothetical! Again, not a display of the human condition as we know it, but a cute little hypothetical: I wonder where fish go when they die? Do they go to a heaven of air? or do they swim in celestial pools- Blah, blah, blah. Keep your feet firmly rooted in the soil and tell us what human life is, Billy. Tell us what it is! ! ! Stop being so damned simplistic.

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David L. Duran 15 June 2008

'...to ever fall in love with the sadness of another.' ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL WRITING.

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Theresa Daly 28 April 2005

the genius of billy collins graces poemhunter!

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Joseph Pedulla 15 December 2017

Billy Collins has done more to harm poetry than anyone in recent memory.

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