do you ever half awaken just before dawn
when the sky is soft and the world is wide
when all that is past and all that is to come
are mere shadows under a restless sun
when for a moment peace is in the air
and your sunlit soul is free of care
26 Saturday Nov 2022
do you ever half awaken just before dawn
when the sky is soft and the world is wide
when all that is past and all that is to come
are mere shadows under a restless sun
when for a moment peace is in the air
and your sunlit soul is free of care
20 Sunday Nov 2022
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creative writing, egypt, egyptian mythology, good and evil, hieroglyphs, poem, poems, poetry, soul, spirit
when they weigh your soul on the final scale
how will it equal the weight of a feather
is the good thought you sent to another
enough to tip the balance in your favor
and does a bold and brave extraordinary act
of kindness counterbalance a past misdeed
no one knows no one can say
for hieroglyphs are silent on this
as silent as the stones they adorn
12 Saturday Nov 2022
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atlantic monthly, ben healy, dreams, humor, platypus, poem, poems, poetry, quote, reality, rhymes, sleep, waking life
“The dreamiest member of the animal kingdom is the platypus, which logs up to eight hours of REM sleep a day.”
i’d love to know what a platypus dreams
when deep asleep but we don’t have the means
to know the world of such creatures’ minds
we don’t understand our very own kind
is desire or dread the driving force
of platypus dreams or is it remorse
is a truer world revealed in their dreams
is our own waking life not what it seems