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On Waking

Poem By: S Thomas Kaza
Poetry


I always thought that there was a little more to waking up than I had been told View table of contents...

 

Submitted: Jun 22, 2008    Reads: 775    Comments: 7    Likes: 3   


On Waking

I wake
From a dream
Leaving the multitude
Of a million realities behind
For just this one, brief, neurological leap
Into the moment
Like a great actor
Returning to the stage
For one final performance
As time and dimension
Fly forth from me
To take their assigned places

The day begins anew
My thoughts perking up
Fresh and steaming
Their aroma slowly drifting from my mind
Into the atmosphere
And what a fine, rich blend they are
I begin to temper them
A little cream and sugar
Until they taste of the familiarity
I most enjoy
And the world I have chosen to dwell in
Is mine once again

(I pause to wonder how some men of the sciences can theorize that all I see and feel this morning will one day wear itself down and force itself out of existence. How nothing new can ever be created or added to this world that is clearly emerging from my mind, and I into it. How absurd..... a closed system with no "in's" or "out's".)

I am a door
A portal in time and space
Leading to a million other universes
All just as real
As the one I now choose
To find myself in
And this day
A great ball of fire knocks loudly
Straining ancient hinges
With the strength of a trillion hydrogen atoms
And I gladly rise from my bed
To watch the sunrise


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Comments:

what a great poem loved it sj

Posted: Jul 22, 2009

Author Comment:

Thanks

woww, love it :)

Posted: Jul 22, 2009

Author Comment:

Thanks

Wow great imagry dude...
a perfect combination of science and emotion.
split second thoughts and feelings are hard to nail expecially the ones you arent fully aware of so this is great.

Posted: Sep 14, 2009

Author Comment:

Thanks for reading my poetry. I appreciate your comments.

amazing poetry. i loved the imagery and passion you showed in this poem. good work.

Posted: Sep 29, 2009

Author Comment:

Thanks. I am glad you enjoyed it.

Wonderful imagery!

Posted: Sep 30, 2009

Author Comment:

Thanks.

Hey great poem! I always love to see authors take risks with poetry/prose combinations like you did here between your second and third stanzas.

Posted: Oct 18, 2009

Author Comment:

Thanks Writer Mike,
I experimented with this before. "On Waking" was probably the first time I thought it worked. Since then, I also used it at the end of my poem, "Living with Peanut Allergy". I find poetry to be powerful in certain ways and prose in others. I guess I am greedy and want to make use of both of them.

I like it a lot. The line between sleep and reality has always fascinated me. Also, kudos to you for being more of a morning person than I am.

Posted: Oct 18, 2009

Author Comment:

Thanks Laughing Lessons, although I am not sure if I see it as the line between sleep and reality or sleep-reality and waking-reality. By the way, I am writing this at 5:00 am.



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