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Daydreamers
Eloise Greenfield

Daydreamers...

holding their bodies still
for a time
letting the world turn around them

while their dreams hopscotch,
doubledutch, dance,

thoughts rollerskate,
crisscross,
bump into hopes and wishes.

Dreamers
thinking up new ways,
looking... more »

Daydreamers
Eloise Greenfield

Daydreamers...

holding their bodies still
for a time
letting the world turn around them

while their dreams hopscotch,
doubledutch, dance,

thoughts rollerskate,
crisscross,
bump into hopes and wishes.

Dreamers
thinking up new ways,
looking toward new days.

planning new tries,
asking new whys.
Before long,
hands will start to move again,
eyes turn outward,
bodies shift for action,
but for this moment they are still,

they are
the daydreamers,
letting the world dizzy itself
without them.

Scenes passing through their minds
make no sound
glide from hiding places
promenade and return
silently

the children watch their memories
with spirit-eyes
seeing more than they saw before

feeling more
or maybe less
than they felt the time before
reaching with spirit-hands
to touch the dreams
drawn from their yeaterdays

They will not be the same
after this growing time,
this dreaming.
In their stillness they have moved formward

toward womanhood
toward manhood.
This dreaming has made them new. « less