Eros and Oneiros

 

They have more than a nodding acquaintance, 

a knotting acquaintance perhaps, 

with the dreamer in love with the lover 

and the lover lost, dreaming enrapt.

 

O Eros in Oneiros

 

Eros wafts his stinging spears, 

whispers in Oneiros’ ears

which rich visions will delight

the dreaming denizens of night.

 

O Eros in Oneiros

 

The dreamers soon are introduced

to those who have, or wish seduced

And as the nights make their progressions,

the dreams succeed with their successions. 

 

O Eros in Oneiros

 

On the shore of once before,

passed the grasp of Nevermore,

with Oneiros as hired guide, 

and Eros in the air astride.

 

O Eros in Oneiros

 

Collapsing with laughs in the laps of the past,

while the dreamer is streaming what never can last. 

 

O Eros in Oneiros

 

 

(c) Ken Sullivan, 2020