Day 16 - He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - by William Butler Yeats

Today is my friend's birthday, and I haven't called her for over a year.  We've known each other for so long that I sometimes believe she can hear the unspoken words in my head, wishing her well, wishing her a Happy Birthday.   It's not that I don't want to talk to her, she's been my friend forever and people used to think we were sisters.  I love hearing what's new in her life.  But it's so much easier not talking.  Wouldn't it be nice, if like magic, we could just send thoughts to each other?

William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) was interested in the occult, magic, Hinduism, and astrology.  Without those, he is quoted as saying, he wouldn't be able to write. It inspired him. His "Ghost Club" researched paranormal activities, he attended seances, and he joined the Golden Dawn order.  His muse for many of his poems rejected five (?) marriage proposals from him, eventually marrying someone else.  How disturbing for him.

I guess his magic didn't work.  But I hope mine does, I hope my friend hears the unspoken words for her.

Here is my spoken version of this poem:
https://soundcloud.com/raindrop-11/he-wishes-for-the-cloths-of-heaven-by-william-butler-yeats

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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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Here is Anthony Hopkins reading of this poem, from the film "84 Charing Cross Road", I really like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUhNa-NkGOg