life is but a dream
one that can be obscene
healthier with gratitude
guided by my attitude
I fantasise
about how things should be
often divorced from reality
awakening can set me free
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Cutting off from reality matters at times and absolutely love this poem.
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I usually get my ass kicked by the world. I’m happy to wake up each morning. It surprises me sometimes.
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I occasionally dive into “how it should be.” Then I realize I don’t have the right awareness or the facts. The American middle class mindset hitting the world is the most interesting.
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hey I cannot get a grip on how your fellow countrymen think … keeping a whacko for president is beyond me …
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I do love going from life is but a dream to awakening can set me free. Such wisdom there!
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A beautiful picture, Kate and nice imaginative thoughtful words composed.
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I love the counterpoint from line one to the last line of waking from life to reality, a wake up call if ever there was one.
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not many get that Paul … I wish had more awareness that we need to do it for ourselves 🙂
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Yes, my thought too. 🙂
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I love how we can carry our dreams into reality
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The attitude we carry along with us, sets how we view all around us. “Healthier with gratitude” pretty much sums it up.
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thanks Glen!
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Powerful image and poem combo, SweetKate!
You do live with gratitude and you have a great attitude…
so keep dreaming, fantasizing, and let the awakening set you free in the ways you want to be free. 🙂
(((HUGS)))
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lol it sure is unfolding, slowly but surely 🙂
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Dreams fading to waking action sounds empowering!
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it is very empowering Val 🙂
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“Guided by my attitude”…Yes indeed. Lovely poem.
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Beautifully penned
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Yes! Beautiful poem and picture!
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pic is from sculptures by the sea
and has a dream like quality to me 🙂
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Oh, we definitely mold our dreamscapes, at least to some extent. Our mind takes our junk drawers, containing the day’s various inputs, and it tries to weave them into a cohesive narrative. Sometimes this effort is more successful than it is at others. Most of the time the story makes no sense. “…and why would penguins carry umbrellas?”
However, at other times it skirts the profound. Here is where our waking selves come in. When our slumber gifts us with the profound, it’s up to our active lives to make it reality.
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i like how you wrote about life as a dream, a different perspective is always appreciated. awakening can set me free – yes that is the best outcome for me too – blessings for a kind and restful weekend dear Kate
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photo and words make a profound post.
Ps Kate, holding a blogging party this sunday – my first ever, do pop over. Love bella
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Amazing illustration! Ah yes….some dreams can really have their own feelings they pass on to us….but then, if we’re dreaming them, are we creating them? Do we have any control over them? If we do, how come some are “nightmares?” And in those cases, waking up can really, indeed, set us free! 🙂
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Nice line and good observation: “guided by my attitude”
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Sometimes it is necessary to awake to a new and better life.
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Awesome picture!
Reality is really the best thing possible and the only thing that can actually be built on.
Love, light and glitter
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I was discussing it with someone the other day. That it’s not about creating something new but building on what is. We just have to see what actually is, first.
💕🕯🌠
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yes, great way of putting it … we have all we need already, it’s inside … we simply have to recognise and acknowledge it ❤
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I truly believe that with a positive attitude that is also respectful of all that is around us that we can succeed in creating a better ‘us’ and world for ‘others’ too.
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Yes, indeed Kate!
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True that is. Liked the lines ‘Healthier…attitude’.
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