by Barbara H.
Member since:
July 13, 2009

A DREAM...08.14.2012....Barbara H.....

August 14, 2012 04:49 PM UTC
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  A Yellow Bus Dream

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

..in the scheme of things

my dreams of things

have become a veritable parade

of everyone I ever knew

most every scene is mean

in that I am not there

So where?

Mornings I awake in a lather

one...

remembering a gathering of folks

around a yellow school bus

And as I watched

it began vibrating

shook and shivered

then seemed to melt

like a giant Jello

until it was no more

just a pile of invisible parts

same being approached

and as if he was coached,

a man, read a decree:

he said to me

"We lost our parts

and it was YOUR part

to keep us together!"

Then he stalked off and disappeared.

Was I the driver?

If so, I had certainly not been prepared

Who would have dared hire me,

without the proper license?

 

08.14.2012

Barbara H.


 

 

 

 

Comments: 15

Vj McMullan Aug 14, 2012, 5:58pm UTC
Interesting poem of yours
Barbara H. Aug 14, 2012, 6:26pm UTC
Thank you for reading and commenting! Always appreciated.
Kevin E. Aug 14, 2012, 6:15pm UTC
Man your poems are always good. This poem made me think even more than your other poems hard to believe that if it is possible think about this poem more than any of your others but I find myself in that position now.
Barbara H. Aug 14, 2012, 6:29pm UTC
Thank you Kevin. Maybe the older I get the stranger I write, so as to cause a reader to try to figure it out. You are a sweety for always commenting!
JOHN BECK Aug 14, 2012, 9:27pm UTC
I know better than to analyze this dream, Barbara.
Barbara H. Aug 14, 2012, 9:48pm UTC
I just dream them....thanks for reading John.
ben Surbana Aug 15, 2012, 12:55am UTC
An unexamined dream is like an unopened letter from God.

(from the Talmud)

This dream is surely worth close examination!
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Lovely poem...and, an important dream...
Doug Westberg Aug 15, 2012, 1:26am UTC
How compelling! I have dreams like that every night! Thanks for sharing with Depression and Creativity!
Now featured.
Kathryn Flynn Aug 15, 2012, 2:46am UTC
fascinating, and quite unusual.
Bernard C. Aug 15, 2012, 6:51am UTC
Getting on the bus is a good trip and sometimes down memory lane - nice write :-))
CL Mareydt Aug 15, 2012, 9:34am UTC
... surreal & very unusual ... how on earth do you make a 'poem' of it ???
KittyKutabare aka Candy Pole Aug 15, 2012, 9:44am UTC
wonderfully introspective composition~
KittyKutabare aka Candy Pole Aug 15, 2012, 9:44am UTC

Thanks for sharing in the Triple Name Club.
Angela H. Aug 17, 2012, 6:20am UTC
I have dreams Barbara. Now I know I am not alone.
Tasha T. Aug 18, 2012, 10:31am UTC
Thanks for posting to "Posting for Points".

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