Dream tapestries

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Dream tapestries

by Louise Morey Bowman

EN·~52 minutes·10 chapters

Chapters

10 total

Dream Tapestries

1:20

THE WINGÉD CLOAK

0:22

Dream Tapestries

5:53

Oranges

5:28

The Mountain That Watched

11:04

Songs of Women

9:04

Cinquains

3:42

Cold Tragedy

1:36

Homespun

13:38

Transcriber’s Notes

0:12

Description

A richly woven collection of verse invites listeners into a world where ordinary moments shimmer with the extraordinary. From the gentle lull of “Hyacinth” in a quiet arbor to the solemn procession of a young king through an enchanted wood, each poem feels like a fragment of a larger, dream‑filled tapestry. The language is vivid yet tender, pairing delicate images of green apples and moonlit gardens with deeper currents of loss and wonder.

The book moves fluidly between forms—concise hokku, lyrical sketches, and narrative mini‑epics—offering a varied rhythm that keeps the ear eager. Themes of nature, memory, and fleeting beauty recur, while playful voices of bakers, butchers, and candlemakers ground the ethereal in everyday life. A recurring motif of cloaks and woven threads suggests that every line is both a cover and a revelation.

Listening feels like wandering through a gallery of whispered scenes, each piece a soft, shimmering thread that beckons you to linger, reflect, and let imagination stitch its own patterns across the verses.

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Language

en

Duration

~52 minutes (50K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Canada: The MacMillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1924.

Credits

Charlene Taylor, Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2023-03-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

LM

Louise Morey Bowman

1882–1944

A Canadian poet with an early modernist touch, she brought dreamlike imagery and careful musical language to her work. Her poems helped earn her a place among notable literary voices in Quebec and beyond.

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