From Nightmares to Lucidity, Day 92 of the 100 Days of Poetry @d-pend
From Nightmares to Lucidity
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a tide away
from the sea
of lucid dreaming
is a range of shifting shoals
moonlight and waves
shadows and starlight
create a world of illusions
the voice inhabiting the ribbed-sands
will tell you
you have awakened
the realm you have emerged from
was imaginary
imaginary and full of monsters
turn back
fight the leviathans and gorgons
it demands, or fall asleep again
wake-up the sleeping beauties
and somnambulist narcissists
before they fall deeper still
into the sinuous grasp of serpents
enemies are everywhere
reject and fight
hide or flee
go ahead
feed terror and anger
joust with windmills
save the world
I ask you
how can you be awake
if you are still living a nightmare
all existence is based on illusions
the perceptions and preferences
the fears and insecurities
of beings contained
within the formless mind
sub-atomic space
collisions and contrast
experienced as solid
who do you save
when the tentacled limb
you lob up is your own
the connection unseen and ethereal
how will you run
when there is no solid land
to find firm footing
no place
outside yourself
you are only ever dreaming
you have gained awareness
when your enemies
have transformed from foes
to creatures of wonder
ask yourself
why do you create this way
perhaps then
you might truly wake-up
and soon discover
there is no need to
shift your reality
from nightmares
to lucidity
From Nightmares to Lucidity is copyright Pryde Foltz
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you really must publish all of these poems as a book. Great writing as usual, philosophical indeed
I am thinking on it:)
This poem I perceive as a cosmic class. The voice, from his vision, thinks about the changing expressions of interiority of humans. A kind of ethereal encounter in which, as an external observer, it has more capacity to see the environment and warns well-intentioned that it is necessary to review and adapt the terrain and the steps that are taking place.
Excellent work, dear, Pryde!
Thank you, zeleira. I see where you interpretation comes from:)
A poem with the impact of a thorough essay, @prydefoltz. Indeed our grasp of reality is as sinuous as your serpents, and we human are just too self centered to realize it.
The first stanza sets the oneiric atmosphere:
Beautiful but uncanny. Love the evocative strength of this image.
For me, this reading was Quixote,
...and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There:
...But I guess there's more. I'm coming back to reread.
Great write! Thanks for sharing :-)
Thank you, Marlyn. For this wonderful and generous response:)
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This is a very thought-provoking poem, @prydefoltz. The perfect thing for me to read in the middle of the night when I am dealing with insomnia and all the mind-bending thoughts that percolate to the conscious mind in the wee hours.