Gail Debole Poet Couplet

Reply Email From Subby Conscience

REM(Gail's note: This is the sequel to the Email to Subby Conscience poem.)

To: [email protected]
From: Subby Conscience
Re: Communication between You and Me
Date: February 14, 2012

While I sneak  and scheme in your chaotic REM
I am doing nothing more than being a friend.

Those dream-swirls and ‘mare-tugs purge your mind’s eye
so that your psyche can grow and won’t suddenly die.

While you’re gripping tightly to antique feelings that won’t budge
I’m prying them out; giving them a strong nudge.

And as you grudgingly work through a feeling or two
I am working my hardest to make you feel what is true.

I even may help you work out a solution or two
Because during the day you are too busy to.

Who else provides perks that allow you to be
both young and old in the very same dream?

So tell me dear, and answer me this.
What would you do if many nights I missed

And was sneaking around in another soul’s REM
What would your sanity be like then?

Without my help to work out thoughts
That keep you quite sane…

Would you then turn around
And try to cast blame?

Saying Subby’s absence caused you to act like a drip?
Saying Subby’s absence caused your tongue to Freudian slip?
 
Instead your mind can skyrocket and cozily soar
After I recede in the A.M. and work behind your mind’s door.

Published in PS: It's Still Poetry
Volume II

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Richard Lamoureux February 5, 2020 at 1:24 PM Clever and very much fun to read. Great Sequel! Gail Debole February 5, 2020 at 1:43 PM Richard, Thank you for reading this sequel! Glad this gave you enjoyment. - Gail

Patrick Cornwall April 27, 2012 at 10:43 AM congrats on feature for your wonderful poem....Patrick Gail Debole April 6, 2017 at 5:33 PM Thank you for your wonderful comment!

Kathryn Collins April 8, 2012 at 6:59 AM Again - You got it sistah. Dream on. love, Kathy Gail Debole April 6, 2017 at 5:32 PM Hi Kathy, Thanks for your comment. Just catching up on my replies since this feature wasn't available when this was first posted.

Christine Van Brunt March 7, 2012 at 12:37 AM Gail, I love both these poems about the active role of our dreaming self in working things out for us behind the scenes. Love the "skyrocket and cozily soar." Love Subby's rhetorical questions. You raise consciousness of another part of ourselves we should "see" and appreciate! Gail Debole April 6, 2017 at 5:31 PM Hi Christy, Thanks for your feedback. The reply function wasn't available when the poem was first posted, so I am just catching up...a few years later...).

Anne-Lise Andresen February 18, 2012 at 9:10 AM Nicely done Gail. - oxox Anne-Lise Gail Debole April 6, 2017 at 5:30 PM Hi Anne-Lise, Thanks for stopping by. Since the comment reply function wasn't around when the poem was first, I am catching up...a few years later...LOL!