Hold air like water
float
traverse skyward
in a dream
unbroken
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dVerse prompt on AI. This picture came out of an AI program at the Dali Museum in St Petersburg. My childhood dream of swimming in air was typed into the program and this picture was created by AI.
Fantasia is Portuguese for costumes. When we put on a costume we enter a fantasy world. Before Halloween, I would bring out the sewing machine and make costumes for my children. One year they were unicorns, a shark and a penguin, Spider-Man, a green dragon (that won a best costume prize), a wizard and an alien. The dog wore a tutu.
Now my children are grownups. I find myself wanting to wear a costume, wanting to enter a fantasy. As soon as I finish writing, I will bring out the sewing machine and go make my fantasia.
let go of myself
find a place where I can dream
a different world
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dVerse haibun prompt on Halloween
His shadow shouts—
don’t betray yourself
stay inside
it is your alibi
months later
on a nightmare scream
he went outside
when his shadow
could not be seen
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dVerse prompt to use Maya Angelou’s line his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
In a dream, there are horses and women are riding them. The horses are huge like none I have ever seen before. (They are like the elephant is to the mahout.). They are coming forward. The riders look so small and the horses are so large. They are not running. They are not trotting. They are stepping, coming boldly with strength and power. I can still see them in my dream. My analytical mind takes me out of the dream and I think of what I was taught by culture, by history. The woman must be on her high horse. Knock the woman off of her high horse. Woman, do not listen to that. That is not the voice of God. The women are coming on their horses.
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NaPoWriMo to write about a dream. This dream was so visual I can still see it.
a dream came
there is power
in a name—
in the naming of a thing
In my dream I am swimming again
Through the air
But this time
The air feels like water
It has substance
I can get a hold on it
And move forward
In a dream
No equilibrium
God’s writing table
Wobbling
I’m about to fall off
Hard to stand
Professionals say
Your world is about to change
Indeed your world is flat
Slide east to west
Get ready for the ride
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NaPoWriMo prompt on dream interpretation
Is a dream a dream
or mind let go
allowed to travel
often to foreign places
time erased
landscape of people
and places
so real you can almost touch
sometimes a clear
observation
sites and sounds
panaroma of vision
calls you in
come
now
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quadrillé at dVerse with “dream”
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