The Somnambulist

Last night I was a somnambulist.
I strolled about in a snowy white mist,
then took to swinging on a branch
that I found upon our 3-acre ranch.
I told my dad, it was very weird.
He said it was the strangest thing he'd heard.
I replied, "I'll snap out of it and clear my head".
I woke up to find it was a dream instead.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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November 6, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Dear David, what a creative poem, sometimes we dream things and sleep walk through different realms, to wake up and realize it was just a dream, iv had similar experiences, especially when we see good ones its sad waking up from them. Pleasure reading ~ sending you light always
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November 6, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Hi Ink, In the dream I felt things weren't making sense, and I shook my head to snap out of it and that's when I woke up. The only things about the dream I changed were I changed my little childhood home to a ranch to make it rhyme, and I was only metaphorically in a mist (which rhymes with somnambulist). So, it's weird, I dreamt I was sleepwalking. Yep, some, you don't want to wake up from.
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