To a Dreamer Not Yet Lucid
While deep asleep
you think you wake.
The bed's instead
that stranger stage
where thoughts perform
whole plays you wrote
unknowingly
though don't direct
since you're not sure
if this is more
that just the stuff
of idle dreams.
So you act on,
can't improvise
yet you attend
theatrically:
both company
and audience
applauding
your absurdity.
To a Dreamer Not Yet Lucid © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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20 lines (prompt limit). Image (person asleep, bed covered with plant life) inspiration challenge prompt - link:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2791731-8-only-----write-what-inspires
Poem inspired by the concepts of Lucid Dreaming and the Theater of the Absurd:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Absurd
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Submitted: October 31, 2021