First Stirrings
First Stirrings, a book of poetry
by David Weedmark
ISBN: 097343550X
70 pages
Published by World in Motion Productions.
Official 2004 Governor General's Literary Award Nominee
"...a reminder and a testament to what is important in life."
An excerpt from the Preface:
The poet is not the dreamer amongst us, whose head is in a fog of clouds, unable to face reality. The poet is immersed in reality and breathes it deeply.
It is the crowd around him, walking past on the busy streets, those in a hurry, driving their cars, harnessed to their machinery, watching their television sets in perpetual re-run, who are dreaming. Those of us who walk through our days repeating in our heads the dialogues of yesterday's lunch meeting, last night's encounter with a loved one, yesterday's argument with a co-worker, or parent, or child; those of us who project into the future our fears and expectations, rehearsing scripts of what we might say whenever we get to where we are going, what we should have said last time, what might be said to us next time, and what we should say in reply to that… it is those of us who are asleep in dreams.
Reality exists only in the present moment. The past and the future do not even exist, except as dreams, whether they be the dreams of memories, or the dreams of anticipation.
