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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America 
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sleep disturbs me it disturbs me therefore I sleep little set the clock's alarm hour and a half through the night my sleep is unplumbed full of . . . not exactly dreams, more like reality terrifying reality traveling down roads paths highways I've traveled before back in the day my travels coil and curve around huge mountains (I assume represent the many obstacles I've faced) deceiving twists and meandering turns what looked right turned out wrong what looked pleasant wasn't the road of love one example well, more than one example ended in hopelessness and misery for all parties concerned enjoyment turned to discontent the roads I trod back then and the roads I trod now in dreams are the same are exactly the same a living hell each step I take I've taken before I know where the roads lead there is nothing unknown oh would that I could take a wrong step into unfamiliar ground would that I could use that misstep to make up for things I've done http://swamprighter.wordpress.com/ [This message has been edited by JerryPat (12-10-2010 09:00 AM).] |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Jerry, I feel your pain and remorse and know how haunting they can be. Be kind to yourself and remember always that each new day is a different day too.  Lori |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
I have finally come to terms with it all, Lori, although it has taken many years. Thank you for your kindness. |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I listen to my dreams, Sir...they are in color, and some time ago I was told to notice 'the small things'...like buttons and seams and background... and my dreams grew! Dreams are sanity, revealed! Embrace them. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Ah, Sunshine, would that what you say is true. Sometimes II think like that, and then there are the other dreams . . . Thank you for ALWAYS putting a smile on your comments. |
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Andrew Scott Member Elite
since 1999-06-24
Posts 2558Redlands,CA,USA |
Strong piece of regret. But those roads make us what we are. For good or bad, it is what it is. I wish you peaceful dreams. "We'll chase them like rats across the tundra." |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
I couldn't agree more, Andrew. Thank you for stopping by and reading my poem. |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
I must ditto what Andrew said. I suppose we all have to know what regret is like to finally call and end to it. Still, we're human and we make mistakes perhaps because we don't realize that they are mistakes at the time. Helen |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
There is an old familiar saying that goes something like this, Helen, "Youth is wasted on the young." |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
Life is about choices and cliches really do have meaning. Interestingly enough we have to make those choices, and/or mistakes to learn the lesson. I can really identify with this...you write in the purest form and I so enjoy your honest to goodness poetry. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Thank you, BluesSerenade, for your very kind words about my poetry. I guess I am trying to write the road traveler out of me. Been down in the gutter and up on that shining hill, there are things to say about them and those places and people who fall in between. |
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Prasad Nataraj Senior Member
since 2008-05-29
Posts 1149Bangalore,India |
Can relate to these emotions very much, nightmares are really scary and they do appear to be real. They drain the life of the living person. Fine writing, Jerry. "Hardwork pays in the long run" |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
I very much appreciate your input, Prasad. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Jerry...After my brain surgery, and probably because of an anti seizure med I was taking, I stopped having dreams for a couple of years. When I changed my meds, theyslowly started coming back. It was as if half of my life was missing when I didn't dream. I realize now how very important they really are. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
I believe dreams are important also, Martie. Sometimes I wonder about some of them but even the bad ones serve a purpose I suppose. Appreciate all the input. |
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gilead Senior Member
since 2008-03-10
Posts 1067nevada, USA |
I have a long time interest in dreams, Jerry. Who/what is the dream-master; who writes the scripts, and do the dramas unfold without rehearsal? It seems there is a deeper, inner self, perhaps one that is superior to the outer, for who can claim to create the things one experiences in a dream in the wakeful light of day! We are complex creatures, and the mysteries of the mind have yet to be explained, even with the best of neurological science. But, moreover, I hope you will find solace in the too oft stormy nocturnal storms, and may they bring ultimate enlightenment. Peace! Art |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Art, I would love to know the discoveries they will make on the human brain in the next one hundred years. Like you said, and I certainly agree, we are very complex machines, the homo sapiens. I have a feeling we are capable of far more than we now believe mentality. Alas and drat, I will never find out, still I believe . . . |
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Prats Member
since 2010-12-16
Posts 74 |
i totally agree with your piece... even in my dreams, 90% of them are nightmares about something that's going to happen in the coming week or something sad that recently happened... Heaven is not that place where you go when you die... it's that time in your life when you actually feel ALIVE!!! |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Hello Prats, and thank you for being here. Dreams. Friend or foe? Who's to know? |
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Spiros Zafiris Senior Member
since 2002-10-20
Posts 982Canada |
..enjoyed the poem, Jerry..some meditation; circling the air with your arms, to clear all, i suggest--(8-16 circles, at least) ..>>spiros |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Hah! Gotcha, Spiros. I'm circling as we speak. |
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