November 14, 2013
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Our Alternate
Awakened from deep but restless sleep
found wrapped in twisted, sweat soaked sheets
With blinking eyes we sweep away cluttered thoughts
Trying to reckon the night’s pale fading dreams
We tell ourselves they are only dreams,
unreal and needing no remembrance
Another life within that we are not allowed to know
a life within our soul as real as the life we can touch during waking hours
Another life always just beyond our arm’s reach
faintly there and sensed only in our mind’s eye.
A place of steep roofs, high bridges and wide canyons
with clear views of the vast spread horizon
but all with weak grasps and unsure footing
Startled awake by effortless wingless soaring flight with sudden falls
Radiant sunshine, cloudless sky but unknown purpose
An alternate life that is kept from us
A life only in our lingering but forgotten dreams.DSS
Comments (7)
Wonderfully wrought! I like the feel of this – it is so like the dreaming especially the line
“Startled awake by effortless wingless soaring flight with sudden falls”. This one is a winner!
Thanks Val! Those falling dreams wake me up every time. :$
the wingless flights are as awesome as the sudden falls are terrifying … great poem!
Thanks for the comment glad you liked it!! I really like those wingless flight dreams, but find it so hard to remember what the dream was about afterward.
Love your poem!
Dreams are such a good way to process the day…the good the bad the scary can come out in my dreams…my dreams often tell me what my mind and heart are concerned about.
HUGS!!! and Keep Writing!!!
I like that, “the good the bad the scary”.
This is wonderful! An excellent poem expressing the feelings and images of dreams. And yes – it seems a whole different life is in those nocturnal wanderings. peace always