Hey 🙂
Today’s prompt was to pretend I was writing parts of an imaginary dream dictionary, for one or more of this list:
Teacup, Hammer, Seagull, Ballet Slipper, Shark, Wobbly Table, Dentist and Rowboat
I, of course, included them all 😉
My poem reads more like me explaining my dreams to someone else, however. Well, it’s always an optional prompt…
DIVING INTO DREAMS
A teacup shatters:
Social connections lost
My communication
And sympathy skills
Are alien to me.
(Better than a lack of cake:
A forced diet
Or a bout of hard times
In my future)
A hammer chases
Screeching seagulls,
While I twirl in ballet slippers
Out-dancing a shark…
This one’s easy.
That shark has no real teeth
(see?)
It’s a small problem I am bigging up
Because I want to avoid it.
This is my flight reflex
(Am I not dancing Swan Lake?)
The hammer and seagulls
Were probably real:
The cacophony of good weather
And sleeping in.
Across a wobbly table,
A dentist smiles
Speaking of her childhood
Where she borrowed the family rowboat
And escaped for a bit.
I experience wobbly tables
Wherever I go.
I like to think they are a reminder
That nothing said
Has a stable platform…
We are always biased in thought.
I have no fear of dentists,
I think I have just been reading
Too much children’s fiction
Where the parents have good jobs…?
I always like the feeling of freedom:
That idea I could roam
Unhindered,
Return to days I never had
Of sailing out of sight.
I watched this TED talk by Isaac Lidsky this week, and my ‘wobbly table’ idea really gets the nod there! What a remarkable man.
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April 14th, 2018 at 6:07 pm
I like this one, *Monty.
April 15th, 2018 at 4:56 pm
Thanks for reading, Jane!
April 15th, 2018 at 9:21 am
I love this… it made me smile – just like a dream where all kinds of strange things seem perfectly normal… 🙂
April 15th, 2018 at 4:55 pm
Awww I’m glad! Welcome to my blog Denise, thank you for reading; I shall hop over and return the favour tonight once the boys are in bed 😉