Dream Encounters

"margaret honton is a poet, writer, editor, and teacher. to that oeuvre we can now add this new work on dreams. Hooray for Margaret marching in front of her own parade, with trickster clowns, with orgasmic flights, with twirling words, with fantastic encounters, with guiding dreams!" (Joseph Honton, 2021)

Margaret Honton resumed collegiate studies from 1970-1975, after raising eight children, and became a graduate student in English at the Ohio State University. Her master's thesis, "To Make Up a Year and a Sphere," was the first thesis in original poetry accepted by the university. Many of her later works, over the following four decades, are archived in the university's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.

Margaret was one of the founding members of the Women's Poetry Workshop at the Ohio State University, and remained an active member for 20 years.

For 10 years Margaret conveyed what poetry is, what it does, and how students can engage with it, during her residencies in the Poets-in-the-Schools Program, supported by the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

As a freelance editor for 10 years, she worked with everything from professors' field notes to manuscripts of popular fiction, to poetry.

Margaret has written poetry for eight decades. She has professionally edited and published poetry anthologies and works on poetry therapy.

A breaking point for Margaret occurred in 1990, when a car crash and near-death experience inaugurated a 30-year career in complementary healing modalities.

Margaret Honton has-for 50 years-recorded her dream stories and their feelings immediately, and reflections on them shortly afterward. Her most recent book, Dream Encounters, captures the beauty of dreams, with special appreciation for how each dreamer can more fully understand oneself.

underscoring premises

sorting roles and works

play-acting facing crowds

rehearsals and rehashals

preparing for an event reciting after an event

death a fact of life

requiem mass three tragedies

genesis of my creative child 

giving birth and nurturing extraordinary girl child distorted boy child

the dreamer as artist

the artist's milieu motifs appreciating the artist within

challenges from childhood

cleansing or purging cleaning up messes shouting

coping strategies

swimming and diving singing

wayfaring

a back-story to the dream stories a pilgrim's journey

a rude awakening

competing solving problems

the give-and-take of dream notes

recording notes images and feelings motifs and themes dream cycles

in awe of dream animals

evolving transforming giving solace

my love of flying

modes and vehicles flying for adventure to escape to orgasmic heights to spiritual realms

opposites in play

yay/boo pairings behaving out of character paradox in waking life

anxiety dreams

taking tests forever undergoing telltale deaths being unseen/unheard

nightmares

threat of rape mayhem and murder

bedtime stories

household tales parodies whodunit

consulting mirrors

erotic encounters

almosting it engaging in sex play enjoying foreplay and more play my playmate lover

here comes everybody

personal myths vignettes

me and my shadow

dark shadow bright shadow collective shadow foreshadow

a hitch in my get-along

recognizing trickster

hello, long time no see

negative and positive male aspects negative and positive female aspects

goodbye: god be with you

letting go of children marriage home

new levels of awareness

reassurances on physical emotional mental aesthetic integrative levels

wrestling with religion

honoring liturgy rejecting tenets

precognitive dreams

coincidences warnings

beyond all boundaries

my near-death experience comparisons and contrasts of lifetimes therapies reiki

anniversary dreams

one template laid on another

being mentored projecting healing

epiphanies

illuminations ecstatic openings numinous dreams

and let perpetual light shine

preview of death and dying the journey home

angels and guides

messengers counselors vi sitors advisors