Dream tapestries

Chapter 30: SYMPATHY

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A collection of lyrical poems that weave dreamlike imagery with everyday and mythic scenes. The poems move between enchanted woods, haunted gardens, village interiors and symbolic tableaux, using vivid sensory language—moonlight, apples, flowers, purple pall—to examine longing, loss, desire, and memory. Some pieces adopt songlike forms and short lyric units; others are narrative sketches evoking funerary rites, domestic rituals, and moments of feminine reflection. Recurrent motifs of time, mourning, and the uncanny create a tapestry of mood shifts from playful to elegiac, inviting readers to linger in symbolic moments rather than in continuous narrative.

SYMPATHY

THAT ugly pumpkin-coloured house

That I saw from the train—

I have wondered about the minds of the people inside

But I wonder in vain.

Did they choose that paint?

Or perhaps it was brought them to buy—

Oh I hope now they’ve got it all done that they like it—

And don’t just have to try.

Oh I hope that it shines there for them

In their sunny green fields

Like a lantern at night—

And I hope that on dull rainy days they both say to each other

“Don’t it look nice and bright?”

Oh I think I shall never forget them

In their new-painted house!