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Friday, October 24, 2008

Recurring Dream Haikus

Haiku FridayWandering the rooms.
They've been hidden for years now
unknown, unopened.

How is this my house?
Who furnished these ancient rooms?
How did they get here?

Sometimes I find rooms
already housing others,
unknown, in my home.

Night comes, breathing soft.
Each time, a new house, new rooms,
yet it's always mine.

What dark place is this,
the undiscovered country,
the map my mind makes?

Why hidden spaces?
Why places I know, but don't?
Why my rooms, but not?

My mind is trying
so hard to tell me something
I'm not listening.
Posted by at 6:29 AM
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7 comments:

  1. I have those dreams too, and I always wish they'd last longer so I could uncover more of the mystery rooms. I never have strange people living there, though!
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  2. Yep. Dreams of fears. Been there.
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  3. Please come visit my blog. I beg of thee! :-)
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  4. Mary P Jones (MPJ)Oct 24, 2008 01:47 PM
    it's me, when I try to visit your profile it's not available. What is your blog URL. I'm very somewhat polite about visiting my commenters. ;)
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  5. I have this dream too. I always think it's about a "room" in myself that I'm not using currently--writer, students, musician?

    But I did also feel extreme satisfaction when I decided to move R.'s desk to an alcove in the master bedroom that is a sort of failed reading nook, and put the new baby in R.'s "study" which he never uses. Rearranging things was really like finding an unused room.
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  6. MY FAVORITE of your haiku's so far. Wow, that's a good one!!

    And I have those dreams too. Only I usually can hear my children and am trying desperately to find them in one of these mystery rooms.
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  7. Sophie in the MoonlightOct 25, 2008 01:46 AM
    Oh, WOW! I also have these dreams. I have two different rooms that constantly pop into my dreams, every time I find them (and they are never in the same house-just the same room) it's like a bad case of deja vu' ala the Matrix.

    Haiku was such a great format for this dream state and, as always, you fleshed it out superbly. Great piece. Thank you.
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