Tales From Our Dreams

by @musicsongwriter

Skirmish: Mine the Poets (@dudachris)

Liner Notes

It is very, very late over here. I'll listen to the songs tomorrow :)

Thank you so much @dudachris for your brilliant prompt: Mine the Poets Pick out a favourite poem or section thereof and let it inspire a song. I've chosen one of my favourite poems "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe. Here is my instrumental. Thank you for listening. YOu can read the poem on www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52829/a-dream-within-a-dream

My music is open to collaborations. Please let me know if you are interested. Thank you for listening and for sharing your thoughts.

Image by Liridon Shala from Pixabay: pixabay.com/photos/valentines-day-background-couple-6548045/ Frame image by John from Pixabay: pixabay.com/photos/sand-sand-texture-sand-seamless-1545316/

'Tales From Our Dreams' © Copyright 2025 Nadia Cripps. Music, Keyboard and Demo by Nadia Cripps.

#skirmish #dreams #instrumental #collaborationswelcome

Comments

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@tjeff

Sounds great Nadia - the keyboard sound you chose is very "dreamy" and fits the poem you selected to evoke. Some super-nice melodic work.

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Very smooth! Dreamy definitely accomplished perfectly!

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I love the slightly haunting, but relaxing electric piano. This is meditative and right up my alley. Your interpretation of Poe absolutely shines!

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@atam94

Incredible composition, Nadia. I think your inspiration for this one is clear, and you did such an excellent job bringing it to life. Very nice :)

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Good choice of EP for this dreamy and sweetly enticing instrumental. I appreciate the sparse harmony and simple melody line. Sometimes I think our instrumentals are a dream within a dream, and perhaps recursive at that. One of the more intriguing things I've heard from you.

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Love this inspiration, Poe is one of my favs and so is this poem. I think this captures the atmosphere and prosody of the write....Just lovely!

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The melancholy instrumentation and melody absolutely HITS on Poe's entire oeuvre, but especially here. Great work!

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@jamkar

It is late here too, and this is just the end of day listen that I need. I must re-read Poe's poem now, and of course re-listen here. Thank you this interesting dreamscape Nadia.

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Sounds good. One take? Really suits the Poe poem. Sort of nostalgic and spooky. Thanks!

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@dudachris

Dreamy for sure! I was expecting a Langston Hughes reflection based on the title but this is a truly wonderful surprise. The melancholy saturating this song makes sense when listened to next to the poem. Great work and thanks for the share 💛

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I read the poem while listening, what a lovely immersive experience! The music is perfect- wistful and haunting, like the sweet echoes of sunny childhood viewed through the rain-spattered window of age.

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@smudge

Hi Nadia, Love the sounds! So cool. Dreamy. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Smudge

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I wondered if I'd see any Poe. Nice job with the prompt. I got to remember that I can just write an instrumental, (instead of what I did with the prompt, which isn't that great). Also one of my works of Poe.

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