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Dreams Distant

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

The oneness of all remains most people’s heaviest denial, yet…

Tuesday, October 29, 2013


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Dreams Distant
by Odin Roark

The child slumbers as well
Eyelids aquiver
Like his father’s
Synchronicity remaining awake

Such innocence
Carries wariness as well
Kicking away covers
Giving escape to the spirit
Often held captive
By parental clinging

How difficult for some
This acceptance of a person’s selfness
Challenging such identity
As if it were not progeny’s to possess
Exclusively

Not unlike love
Such emotive singularity
This unique cosmic enigma
Knows well it must first unto itself be true
Belonging to no one
But itself

In the power of its will
Torturous sleep sometimes
Renders today’s yesterday and tomorrow
Seemingly averse to moving on

In truth
Closed eyelids shelter destiny’s assimilation
And professed separate souls remaining silent
Dream of one another through the distance
Continuing their smile of oneness without end









 
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Reviewed by Tao Chi
Reviewed on October 31, 2013
Makes me think of the connection i have with my daughters, we are unique unto ourselves,even though there are traits that are most definitely inherent, and we do dream, sense and resonate with each other. And they call wanting me to help interpret their dreams. Especially the scary ones. Then we have to go over the subconscious, etc., again and again.
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on October 30, 2013
Methinks we write too much into dreams. But psychologists have had a field day delving into the subject, and literary people like yourself find that dreams are a source of great inspiration.

In this case I'm not sure if you and the child are having dreams together or you are dreaming of your childhood… Such as the mystery of your writing to me. Still, I find reading you extremely interesting in spite of not understanding most of what you have written.

Ron
Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on October 30, 2013
Once again your words reflect a deep insight into the human condition, not merely by wonderfully crafted words, but by an assimilation of life shared with care, skill, and understanding.
Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on October 30, 2013
Eh . . . We have that oneness, true enough, but we also share something else in my opinion, and that is our quirks that is ours and ours alone.
Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on October 30, 2013
How true that each of us is a unique cosmic enigma that must be true to itself.
Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on October 29, 2013
A thought provoking piece of connectivity. So true, the desire to be oneself forsaking all else only to admit in hindsight that we are all one and the same, just one more source of energy in an evolutionary and spiritual matrix. I really like how you have teased it into a dream. M.True
Reviewed by RWE SAYS BYE (Reader)
Reviewed on October 29, 2013
...to sleep perchance to dream of unity amid diversity wherein the gestalt in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts belies an even greater truth: all in all it's just another mall... caveat emptor, my friend, caveat emptor! (this week's theme: slumber party!)

Roger
Reviewed by Morgan Merriweather
Reviewed on October 29, 2013
Some dreams are sweet indeed . Visions shared.

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