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I felt a lift, a thermal high and out the corner of my eye saw angel wings recalling angels fly -- thinking myself to give it a try; no halo, of course, just arms and hands nor feathers for glide, yet sensed a certified flying-couch on each side offering me a heavenly ride~ higher and higher, into ever dearer light – beyond our sun we flew out of sight zooming passed stars, red, blue and white... planets and moons far smaller yet bright, each one, its own guardian of great mystic, celestial might -- (seeming less to matter which wrong or more right) -- back home, in my easy porch-chair, the morning dawn bringing our usual breath of clearer fresh air – feathers fading from my sleepy morning inner sight an old man, blind, rocker-bound, out for a night --

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Date: 5/11/2025 12:51:00 PM
Dreams and reality Joe Dimino...Both seem different.? Yet we know them in the same world At the same time.' That must dissapear that eternity may take us..To just exactly where???
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Date: 5/10/2025 7:45:00 PM
Oh that ending was fantastic. Back down to earth in the old easy chair. Great job
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Date: 5/10/2025 10:58:00 AM
A dreamer in the night, flying among celestial lights... He's not rocker bound when he sleeps. Perhaps visualizing more than most who have sight. Tripping the light fantastic with this one, Joe. ;-)
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