Thanks so much Jamie Dedes and The Poet By Day for publishing my dream poem Two Winged Entities… ❤
Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine
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“…whenever a new, especially successful form of an infection emerges, it will spread rapidly around the globe.”
Plagues and PeoplesThe current pandemic is a disquieting influence, but an influence it is. COVID-19 is inspiring dreams that are wishful, fearful, and often surreal. Such is Clarissa’s dream reported in this poem. It reflects the yearning, anxiety, and concern we all feel and, not unlike our experience of this pandemic, it contains elements of the surreal. / J.D.
DREAMING:
Two wings touching
Dark and light
Not very opposite
Never did they fight
The archangels Raphael and Lucifer
Walked into a bar together
Both ordered Southern Comfort Rocks
Needing respite from frantic Root Workers
Overworked simplers and herbalists
Calling upon Raphael for assistance
In the healing of an ailing global populace
While Lucifer himself was busy with
Contracts multiplying each…
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