Forest Walk After The Rain

If I were a season, it would be autumn when life lets go to whatever comes next in grand flashes of freedom. The animated foliage unleashed in melancholy weather suits my mood. In dying leaves and spectacular sunsets, I see transformations and openings for future renewal. The season is cooler but it makes me feel warmer and cozier inside. Fall is my response to "what soothes you", the Poets and Storytellers United prompt.

   

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Sweet Dreams

Vancouver appointments and long stints in waiting rooms had some folks seeming to nap while I looked out the window and contemplated the "memories and dreams" prompt from Poets and Storytellers United, resulting in my poem below.

Although I've had my share of nightmares, I've also had dreams where I'm levitating, light as a leaf, the key player and/or observer wrapped up in vivid yet strangely vague and deliciously mysterious plots from which I don't want to wake. Perhaps you've had similar experiences. Usually, such dreams pick up on past memories or events of the day and reflect thoughts that linger in the subconscious mind. I imagine that the many people who sleep in these Vancouver highrises have had dreams that felt amazingly real. Our dream lives are so much more than a playground where we pretend.

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Check out my sites: Postcards from Penelope Puddle and Musings of A Puddlist In B.C.

Because the state of our planet is the most pressing issue of our time, link up and learn about the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report.

HOLD ONTO THE LIGHT

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