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Ideas While I Sleep

Prancing into my mind today Enchanting me briefly is a weird strangeness That even my imagination does not comprehend What do you mean? I ask her seedlings As she flits faerie-like into my dendrite alley What are you about? Where do I go with this idea? She smiles, hiding her selflessness inside my coffers. Knowing me better than I know myself. Challenging me to look deeper Knowing I will eventually Chase down and catch her Even briefly, wowing myself again With ideas I birth during my sleep

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Bernard Chan

Date: 5/19/2019 9:49:00 AM

Happens to me quite a lot, as I think it does to almost everyone who writes. You've captured a mysterious but vital part of the creative process, Caren :)

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/19/2019 2:05:00 PM

I wake up HEARING the last two or three lines of a poem and RARELY remember more than the last three words which drives me CRAZY Bernard.

Stina Lu

Date: 5/18/2019 4:50:00 AM

I once had the similar experience and i also wrote a poem for it. Good work!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/18/2019 6:22:00 AM

I wake up with the ending lines, angry because I never retain anything but the last few bits, knowing it would have been "the poem".

Allen Beilschmidt Sr.

Date: 5/17/2019 11:52:00 PM

When an idea strikes, It wont leave us alone until we make something out of it.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/18/2019 4:11:00 AM

I wake up with the last line of a poem, mad as hops that the rest of it is gone, knowing it was "THE ONE".

Tom Cunningham

Date: 5/17/2019 5:33:00 PM

Often go to bed thinking of what to write and next morning little nudges of info start popping up. They say your unconcious mind takes over while you slumber. Tom

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/17/2019 8:44:00 PM

My unconscious mind is working while I astral travel, not in my body at all, Tom. It is weird how the mind can split herself and be six places at once.

Gershon Wolf

Date: 5/17/2019 2:31:00 PM

Your ideas come to you during sleep. Since I hardly sleep anymore, mine come to me in the bathroom...Right: Don't ask! LOL. ~ gw

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/17/2019 4:40:00 PM

I do not have to ask, for it seems you have shared just enough to make us all smile today, imagining it.