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The Language of Dreams

By Sister Lou Ella Hickman, I.W.B.S.

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dreams were our first language
handed down for the many millennia
to what we have become
they still speak their secret language
that was once voiced
in the cave drawings of vanished beasts:
mammoths, lions, horses, and deer
of hands stencilled red or black
and the men
who danced in the light of the primal fire
before their hunt
so, when dreams come
this ancient language
speaks our secret truths
like stories on walls reflected in the fire light . . .
one question remains
when dreams come
will we dare
to dance in the darkness of our own sacred fire
	

Sister Lou Ella Hickman, I.W.B.S. is a widely published poet. She published her first book of poetry in 2015 entitled she: robed and wordless.

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