Not-so-dreaming

The recent magnetic poetry site has gone. I’ve been consulting the old set for the last few weeks in any case, but I wouldn’t like to think I was partly responsible. If the Oracle leaves, what’s to become of us?

Not-so-dreaming

It was a diamond dream or a dream of diamonds,
or perhaps a dream of a diamond mother.
Perhaps it wasn’t sleep at all, only not-so-sleep,
because the sky was the colour of rain,
and the shadows on your skin were pink as roses,
petals drifting on dark water.

There must be blood in the wind; it has a bitter taste,
and the day aches, weeping dry tears.

A violin plays somewhere, a story of love gone sour,
or lost or died. The ship has gone—
left at the water line, those pink petals again,
and I wonder if these are your last words

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Author: Jane Dougherty

I used to do lots of things I didn't much enjoy. Now I am officially a writer. It's what I always wanted to be.

26 thoughts on “Not-so-dreaming”

    1. I wasn’t being entirely serious 🙂 I hadn’t been using that site for a while and was idly speculating that the Oracle had decided to move if fewer people were visiting. She’s still at the original site though.
      I’m okay, thanks. I started a Substack hoping it will be useful to advertise my books and can’t keep up with two sites. There are people here (like you) I like to keep tabs on so I post a poem on Saturdays to keep the blog ticking over.

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      4. It’s a good place. Not at all like blogging. There’s a lot more interaction, like having a social media platform just of writers. It’s hard to keep up with anyone on WP. I get hardly any notifications. You get a lot more visibility on Substack and it’s a different kind. People wanting to do things with their writing/art, interacting and being helpful. I’d give it a go. Costs nothing 🙂

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  2. “Perhaps it wasn’t sleep at all, only not-so-sleep”–that happens to me so often now.

    For me, the magnetic poetry site just went back to the way it was originally. I wonder why it seems to be disappearing for you? It would leave a large hole if it did go away. (K)

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    1. Hard to tell sometimes what’s a dream and what is just sleeplessness.
      I had the old site bookmarked and it has always functioned. Today though I looked at the new site and got the message from GoDaddy that the site has expired and the domain is up for sale.

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      1. That’s strange. Sounds like some kind of spam. It’s working fine here; I just checked again. And it says it’s powered by shopify–when I tried to find a connection with GoDaddy nothing showed up.

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  4. The almost-sleep and almost dreams–sadly beautiful. My poem had sort of the same theme and many of the same words.

    That’s so weird that you get the site is gone. The Oracle is available to me, both the way she’s been for the past month or so, and the site I bookmarked from you.

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      2. Thanks! For me, that’s the ‘old’ set. I still have that bookmarked and went back to using it a few weeks ago. The ‘new’ one is the one that’s gone, the one with the dark grey background and different names for the word sets.

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    1. That’s the original one. I kept it bookmarked when the site updated. It’s the updated version that seems to have gone. Merril can still get it though which is weird!
      Thanks Colleen, the Oracle’s poems often read like dreams.

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