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A Ripped Blanket Screamed...
"I'm Baack!"
Putin called on a burner, there's a little issue
in a storm water drain,
just south of Munich.
My Russian isn't fluent, it was difficult to decipher.
I heard "balloon" and "ice cream"
militant code words for
"internet"
and "a cold, sweet, creamy dessert" .
I ran to the local drug store, bought a home pregnancy test
just incase.
My neighbor is a sex therapist,
she said this dream means
I need to re-connect with nature.
I've skinned three fish and a carrot
- the result was still pregnant positive
So I've sent a personal letter
to President Ramaphoza,
congratulating him on becoming
the queen
in July.
The local butcher says
the nightmare means I should eat more bacon.
The alarm clock is ringing insistently
I need to get up.
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Published 24th Apr 2022
| Edited 30th May 2022
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24th Apr 2022 9:42am
24th Apr 2022 12:31pm
good morning dearest Al
it's no wonder you're having these dreams
in the current climate of things
our world is a bit surreal as of late...
great write
it's no wonder you're having these dreams
in the current climate of things
our world is a bit surreal as of late...
great write
Anonymous
- Edited 24th Apr 2022 5:47pm
24th Apr 2022 5:44pm
Well this is… a lot. 😂
I find it interesting looking at the tags and how this is tagged conflict. And that’s exactly what I got from this - the clash of dreams and nightmares. The good and the terror.
The torn blanket in the title almost becomes a metaphor for the conflict of the poem. It kind of reminded me of the biblical telling of the temple curtain being torn in two when Jesus died; how it symbolises the old covenant and the new covenant.
Very interestingly, there seems to be hint here to some sort of dream concerning pregnancy imagery. To dream of this is often interpreted as moving one from phase in the life to another, and the anxiety of that.
Also interestingly, I asked the Otherworld for clarification about this imagery because I was genuinely interested. I shit you not, the card that appeared (the two of swords reversed) refers to conflict, and feeling like you are torn in two and that action may be needed to face up to that.
(Ha!)
I include that because the whole poem marries up in terms of its themes, and it was very interesting to process throughout.
… I’ll stop now. But this was much, much, much to pick through in terms of the imagery it communicates.
Thanks for sharing 24.
-M
I find it interesting looking at the tags and how this is tagged conflict. And that’s exactly what I got from this - the clash of dreams and nightmares. The good and the terror.
The torn blanket in the title almost becomes a metaphor for the conflict of the poem. It kind of reminded me of the biblical telling of the temple curtain being torn in two when Jesus died; how it symbolises the old covenant and the new covenant.
Very interestingly, there seems to be hint here to some sort of dream concerning pregnancy imagery. To dream of this is often interpreted as moving one from phase in the life to another, and the anxiety of that.
Also interestingly, I asked the Otherworld for clarification about this imagery because I was genuinely interested. I shit you not, the card that appeared (the two of swords reversed) refers to conflict, and feeling like you are torn in two and that action may be needed to face up to that.
(Ha!)
I include that because the whole poem marries up in terms of its themes, and it was very interesting to process throughout.
… I’ll stop now. But this was much, much, much to pick through in terms of the imagery it communicates.
Thanks for sharing 24.
-M
8th Jun 2022 8:40pm
Messed up, as any and pretty much all dreams. A fine and funny submission. Respect, Robert.
26th Jun 2022 8:51pm
