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Falling asleep - how to
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Falling asleep - how to |
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jjote Senior Member
since 2002-12-25
Posts 1088Ontario, Canada 
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falling asleep- how to Be like a poet, prepared for spontaneous inspiration. You may see a wisp of smoke blowing from someone's cigarette - follow its flight into space above you, until it fades somewhere between the ceiling and the smoker's head. Some more wisps of smoke will float aimlessly to join other wisps but these don't grow heavy like clouds scudding the sky on a spring day. Imagine them wrapping around each other in some invisible limbo of their own. You could get hypnotized to sleepiness in no time trying to pierce this hazy veil of smoke. Don't count sheep, be a shuttlecock in the wind, its feathered flights across the court a rhythmic to and fro soothing sound. As the wind blows around it, feel the leaves rustle like tattered pages, the forest whispering a lullaby, rocking you to sleep. Have a vision of you dripping wet under the rain, scrubbing you clean. Ride with the tendrils curling downwards until they evaporate on the ground. As you and the rain melt and become one, your essence evaporates into a dream pulling you into deep sleep. When sleep is elusive, let your mind just wander into the deep end of the sea. Touch the undulating weeds moved by the waves above it. Search for a sea. nymph, and when you find her, hold her hand or her fins or her tail or whatever part of her you can latch yourself into. The very act of trying to catch her maybe so exhausting you could fall asleep into oblivion. Now, was that so hard, falling asleep? @jjote 0828/2015 |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Cool. Me, I just eat a bunch of carbs or a Benadryl or a zolpidem tartrate (generic Ambien)and soon . . . one sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four . . (lol) j. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
fine writing...sometimes I fall asleep praying...james |
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OLIAS Senior Member
since 2000-06-20
Posts 1090Pearl city Iowa |
Nice write enjoyed greatly |
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