I don’t claim to be a poet AT ALL. However, when starting to write up a recent dream this is how it wanted to be written… who am I to argue?!
Shadow
I took my Shadow for a ride.
He’s heavy and oh, so very black.
I tell him,
Shadow, you’re too big for me to carry,
Especially on my bike.
I have these train tracks to drive along,
How can I bring you with?
It’s too much strain to take you there.
Would you please leave me alone?
.
Says my Shadow, You must take me,
I’m in your soul, you see
I’m really not so dense or scary.
Take me along, I’ll share the load.
.
And so I rode. It was not bad.
We talked ol’ Shad and I
About all the things I had kept down deep,
While he peddled as he said.
And when we came into the city
The load was gone, and in his place
A woman.
White and bright, she stood so tall.
She kissed me deep and I drank her in.
My Shadow becomes my Love.
Prompt: Write up one of your recent dreams. What is it telling you. You’ll know when the answer resonates.
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Joanna, great poem! By the way, your presentation at the Horace Greeley Writers’ Conference Saturday (October 15) was terriffffffffic.
Thank you, Ann!