Writing Prompt #1 by Mandy B.

December 16, 2011 by Mandy B. | 2 Comments

I’m back! After a few weeks working with the print side of Bohemia, I am excited to be back to the blog.

Bohemia‘s spring issue (now accepting submissions) is themed around dream worlds and dreamscapes. Literature and dreams are deeply rooted in each other, each relying heavily on images and multiple layers of consciousness to weave a narrative. Take, for instance, Carl Sandberg’s poem:

Dreams in the Dusk by Carl Sandberg

DREAMS in the dusk,
Only dreams closing the day
And with the day’s close going back
To the gray things, the dark things,
The far, deep things of dreamland.

Dreams, only dreams in the dusk,
Only the old remembered pictures
Of lost days when the day’s loss
Wrote in tears the heart’s loss.

Tears and loss and broken dreams
May find your heart at dusk.

In this poem, Sandberg places his dreamscape at dusk. He adorns his dreamscape with colours (gray, dark), tears, and lost days, to draw the reader into his dream. When you think of your dreams, what physical place do you put them in? What object or landscape draws you into your dreamworld every time?

 

Get your poems and prose in to Amanda at amanda@bohemia-journal.com!

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