searchingtoseethe dreamer
‘interrupted by a daydream’, 2014
The Dreamer
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Dreams: as vivid in my eyes as orchids.
Like them brilliant and opulent,
like them drawing through the giant stem
of living sap the juices of their strength,
like them flaunting an absorbed life-blood,
revelling in the fleetness of the minute,
then, in the next, pallid as the dead.
And when, softly, worlds pass overhead,
do you not feel their winds, flower-scented?
Dreams: as vivid in my eyes as orchids.
Yep, still here, still daydreaming …
This is the latest image in my in defense of daydreaming series, which is taking me in interesting directions. You can read more about it and find all the images in my artfinder shop.
© images and content Emily Hughes, 2014
searchingtosee 
Beautiful image, Emily, paired so well with Rilke.
Wonderful words and shots. I’m a big daydreamer!
yes, me too! Thanks!
So beautiful! And a perfect marriage of image and words. Wonderful stuff.
thanks Angela 🙂
This is wonderful. And the interplay between word and image is really rich.
thanks Richard – I thought the poem worked well with it.
Ah, dreamily lovely.
Thanks Elena 🙂