Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
M.G. Narasimha Murthy
Sleep we welcome and dreams we love:
They give us pleasures quaint
And thrills incredible 颅
Feats fantastic, Herculean;
Scaling heights, Himalayan;
Flying wingless to land on the moon;
Or plunge into the bosom of the blue ocean 鈥�
颅Scenes bizarre, ethereal;
Merry, crazy, and comical,
Ludicrous and quite trivial
Some weird, dismal, unnatural,
Turn into nightmares, so frightful,
Of glaring swooping and bloody vampires,
Bodies distorted, bleeding, bare,
Freeze our blood and leave us scared:
But such terrors are rather rare.
Sliding smoothly down the stream
Into lower levels, dark and deep,
Maze of memories, labyrinthine,
Of the amazing subconscious mind,
Dreams explore and unwind,
Tensions and conflicts of every kind
Hopes and fears, love and tears,
Simmering hate and desires repressed,
Rise to the surface uninhibited,
In shapes whimsical and bewildering.
Love sublime and Platonic, ideal and romantic,
And passions morbid, Freudian,
Consuming libidinous flames,
Narcissus and Oedipus, intertwined,
Bring images, lurid and strange,
Surpassing Picasso鈥檚 abstract frames.
Visions baffling and mysterious,
Reveal life鈥檚 texture, intangible;
Elusive dreams and life real,
Dissolve, merge and become one,
And recall Prospero鈥檚 reflection颅
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鈥淲e are such stuff
鈥淎s dreams are made on;
鈥淥ur little life is rounded with a sleep.鈥�