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Kosice, Slovakia, winter 1994.
Image courtesy Jim Murray
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OLD
DREAMS
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I
redesign my life, open hidden places
bare
myself to myself; search letters for some word,
some
hint of who I was, perhaps of why I was.
No
longer lost in spirit and mind, old loves freed,
I
grieve for dreams beyond reclaim; old letter, scrap
of
fabric tossed aside to make room for
today's
loves and dreams, today's image of my life.
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DREAM
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and
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Life
has always been a dream to me
I walk
and talk but do not see.
My thoughts
are lost in a day
of perfect
scenes that play
in vibrant
colors, its ending
always
happy and blending
with
what is called real.
Dreams
help me accept and feel.
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About
the Poet:
After
enjoying amateur acting in local theater, Barbara LeBel entered
the professional theater world when her one-act play, Laurie,
won an Individual Artist Grant from the Ohio Arts Council
in 1980. Winning a national playwriting competition, the play
was later produced at the Cleveland Public Theater. Other
playwriting commissions followed, a children's play performed
in over 100 schools in the Cleveland Public School System
among them. A former English teacher at a junior college in
Ohio, Ms. LeBel has begun focusing on poetry, enjoying the
shorter form and directness of expression it affords.
Resources:
Journey,
LeBel's previous contribution to the Newsletter appears in
Issue 10.
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