A Comfy Kind Of Restless

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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