The Dream Book


A well-known, successful artist-singer-songwriter handed a book to me in the middle of a forest.
"My works are in this book," said he as he turned it over. 
Smiling and glowing, fresh-faced and young-looking, the songwriter was clad in clothes for cold. 
As I got hold of it, the smell of a brand-new book was wafting in the air. 
I flipped through the pages and I saw artistically-taken photographs. 
One was a picture of a hole on the bough with the sprouting of a leaflet. 
An evergreen against a mahogany branch! 
Seen through the hole of a branch was a hole of another branch of an old tree. 
And beside the photograph was a terse poetry.
An eye within an eye
of a thousand and one
But none of the name of the songwriter was there. 
I lifted up my head and I was all alone in the woods.

Blogger's Note: Who was the artist-singer-songwriter in the dream? The face of the artist in the dream was of a countryman, a currently popular singer-songwriter in the Philippines [photo above]. Or could it be the soul of an internationally-acclaimed singer-songwriter who died twenty years ago? In my recent online research, I was appalled to find out the late John Denver (described as "legendary" and "mystical") was not only a singer-songwriter but also an actor, environmentalist, nature-lover and, most of all, had an unpublicized gift in photography! Was the singer-songwriter in the dream John's soul that visited me from Heaven? Or was the singer-songwriter in the dream a representation of the Divine Gift to be or already bestowed upon my instrumentality? -fdivinemercy

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