Dreaming on the Page Writer’s Showcase

Featuring Jennie Meyer

When we combine dreams and writing we joyfully release the stories and poems that want to be expressed through us.  the Dreaming on the Page Writers Showcase is an occasional series where I share pieces from writers who recently completed a Dreaming on the Page writing course. Each piece is selected because, like a memorable dream, it contains beauty and meaning that’s too good not to share. —Tzivia Gover, Dreaming on the Page 

Allie B.
In memory

by Jennie Meyer

As a child she loves
butterflies
and paper mâché,

grows up to teach art
and the way of flying
to neighborhood kids,

finds her drunk mother
drowned
in her own bathtub.

She never stops her children
from partying, never worries
they will turn out like Gram—

by the time they are teens
she is departing this world.
She knows what matters.

I still doubt. In a dream I hide
in her vacant room so I won’t
be found by my pursuer.

But she has shed all of hers.
Her only wish— to float
as butterflies,

for her children
to find her
by the flowers.

Artist’s Statement

‘Dreams and Writing Help Me Believe my Inner Voice’

Dreams and writing have always been my companions, helping me to hear and believe my inner voice(s), and to access sources of solace, support and direction.

Thanks to my training with Tzivia and the Institute for Dream Studies, and with Tzivia’s Dreaming on the Page (DOTP) offerings, I have finally begun in earnest to weave together these two muses. When I write, I honor my dreams and infuse them into my waking world, and when I dream, I open to the fertile field of inner voice and direct revelation.

My poem Allie B. emerged from a DOTP “dialogue with a dream character” exercise. I conversed with my briefcase-toting pursuer, who told me that I needed to accept all of who I am, as the waking life “Allie” had done. So, in order to better understand her, I wrote this poem. It also helped me grieve her passing. I am still in process with his advice. But, since I dream of many female artists in my area, I know (as one told me in a dream) that my art is my poetry and I must write.

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