Dream Waking Poems

“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like dull background...

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If everything we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
You're a dream I'd fool myself
To keeping. 
Ever have my bleary eyes seen
A waking...

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Her husband's kisses made her heartbeat quicken;
he held her hand and whispered, 'Happy birthday' -
and for a moment, Janet felt convinced his
untimely death had been...

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Moonlit shadows slowly creep

As I'm drifting off to sleep

All my dreams will soon be true

Once I wake up next to you...

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They don’t crucify prophets these days 
I told the man in my waking dream,
They have more sensitive subtle ways,
They call them rehabilitation schemes,
Talk until you...

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Every dream is always the same,
I escape to the stables,
Looking for you,
Holding you in my arms,
A kiss softly on the lips.
Falling on the hay.
But that...

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Waking, Her Pretty Smile, Her Presence- Both Lives Uplifted

Of all the old broken roads left so very far behind
No, nothing, nothing rests easy on this...

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I was in and around a crowd of angels
I am amongst them in thier chambers 
I was asleep on a bed of clouds 
I was...

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Myriad objects manifest in dreams
We know not the source, that makes them so stream
If all one, why do we feel separate
Clear light dawns, when we...

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shadows to light
soft heartbeat
but resting
no one around
tree limbs still
wonders of nothingness
closed eyelids
images linger
beginnings without endings
linger images
eyelids closed
nothingness of wonders
still limbs tree
around one no
resting but
heartbeat soft
light...

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WAKING

I woke from a dream
to a clear mellow voice floating
through the valley like the sacred
oscillation of a singing prayer bowl,
the reverberating ring of its braided
harmonics...

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“dreams within dreams will continue to play
until resting ego, we cease to sway”

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Bring
it on
all at once
or if you wish
a step at a time,
it matters not...

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Let’s go back in time to the nineteen fifties, Melanie suggested.
How about 1942? Her best friend, a more knowledgeable Tillie protested. 
So they woke up...

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We,
as bliss
in fullness,
as it is choose
to dream deep descent,
followed then by ascent.
As both subject and object,
we enact the play as chosen,
hoping in timeless time to...

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Sonata of a waking dream
Flower drifting through the breeze
Sing a song within my dream
Every word bursting to redeem
Sonata of list and pride
Bled from a peak...

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