Tag: dreaming
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Tell me the story
Every nightI listened to the twists and turns of words wound with wonderstories that snuck in before the sleepingenlivening my dreamingwith kingdoms, castles and crystallised candy But now that I’m wiserI read actual articles articulating artefactsof automobile atrocitiesof fact and forecastsinformation that never lastsnever remembered Unlike the land of miracles and magicof my grandmother who…
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Dreaming Gaia
Waking mildlyto the morning dewthe condensation of cold and comfortpressed against my chest. I am finding it hard to restto sleep wellto dream without pain, heartache or angerof past lovesof past friendsthese dreams that never end. Last night he returnedthe man, the father, the partner the loverit is always a man, the foolwho I end…
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Stuck
I am 10 years old all over again.In a classroom, with a cubby where I put my cold cutsThe air is dozyThe floors are tinted orange, speckled brownIt reminds me of dirt and of earthand how I belongbut alas there are wallsand childrenwho look just like meand we are trapped in this microcosm of spaceand…
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Bow down, sow here
(A response to Galatians 6: 1-17) Bend down lower, right down to your knees, feel the ground, the dirt, the worms, the matter of you and me. See how it holds magic and mystery as it grows and produces, see how the brown and the wet is the earth’s golden juices. You could almost drink…
by Rev Alisha 