17 responses to “Carpe Diem – a dream within a dream”

1. i like the shattered dreams slipping thought fingers. Great tanka!

2. Wonderful! ~ sad but real ~ lovely lines all!

   artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)

3. Dreams slipping through your fingers like sand … nice tanka Björn.

4. Lovely, as always. I know the feeling of dreams slipping through fingers like sand.

5. Oh, I have this scene stored in my memories. Do you read other people’s mind? Wonderful, as always.

6. i like how you use my and your in this bjorn…
   imagine those waves washing away the footsteps
   leading away as well…

7. shattered dreams to footsteps that lead away – an epic journey perfectly captured in so few words.

8. I really enjoyed this interpretation, Bjorn — it would have worked well as a haiku, but when you add those two lines to make it a tanka it becomes that much more poignant and even softly sensual — “waves caress your shore” —

   Great tanka 😀

9. Bittersweet, Bjorn!

10. Sad when dreams are shattered, but they teach us a lot 🙂

11. so sad – such a lonely feeling conjured up by your haiku

12. Resonates with sadness and relates to the Poe poem. Lovely !

13. A beautiful tanka dear Bjorn and very much in the spirit of Poe’s poem in my opinion.

14. A very strong sadness there.

15. such strong longing…a love so fragile slipping away. The sand and ocean are so powerful in this tanka!

16. Only “your” shore gets caressed? 😉

    From the Raven’s Beak

17. Bjorn, Sad but perhaps hopeful in that someone is leaving to perhaps begin again. Well written. 🙂 — Suzanne

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