A Comfy Kind Of Restless

Hi 😊

I hope your Saturday has had space for a fulfilling activity for you. We ventured around the block today in pairs, which was our first time past the end of our garden for us since the 23^rd of March. Our neighbours’ cars were all shiny in the street, the birds were chatting up a storm, and the air smelt very good!

With all this surreal restriction having descended upon many towns and cities across Europe (and beyond) at the moment, I suppose it isn’t a huge leap to start to think about the concepts of control, reality and what it means for us as individuals (especially, as I have already mentioned, when you are holed up with two little Whovians, and watching episodes from Season 6 with Matt Smith as the Doctor, trying to get your head around the timeline of River Song, etc…).

Step in the prompt for Day 4 of NaPoWriMo, which asked me to write a poem around dream imagery! I have had some really vivid dreams, and I always dream in colour. So I got my rhyming head on and went for it:

Dream Scenes

I am in a storeful of tools

With the staircase from school

And the weapons of war

Littered on the floor.

And the people I see

Have all been lost to me,

But I’m not meant to know

So I keep quiet. Grow –

Like a tree – from a root

With a venomous shoot

That is creeping around,

But not making a sound.

And the only true way

To save anyone’s day

Is to just play along

But make it go ‘wrong’.

[If I let on I see

That this is all a dream

Then everyone will

Perish by my tendrils…]

So I think, and I change,

Manipulate strange,

Til the Carebears have time

To shift this paradigm.

They dismantle the wall,

Rainbow-forcefield us all,

And my fingers return!

So: I pay for 6 ferns,

Depart in a rocket,

(A star key in my pocket)

Sing a beautiful aria,

Breaking all psychic barriers;

Anger an evil lord

With burning mystic swords

But wake up as they fall…

In my bed I’m then sprawled.

Something about the subject matter and rhyming scheme takes me back to my poetic 11 year old self 😉

What weird dreams do you have? Have you ever written them down? I always feel I should keep a dream journal and finally write a best-seller or two from it. That proved extremely successful for Stephenie Meyer, after all…

Monty X

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