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juxtaposed with wilderness

 

life's anodyne found betwixt the boughs

 

me, a sweet synechdoche

 
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i had a dream that a childhood friend wrote this poem.  there are subtle variations (apparently my sleeping brain likes to make up unreal words) and yes, i am aware this is not the syllable structure of a haiku (another thing to explain to my sleeping brain).

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4 December 2015 - 6:58pm — allets
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This Is Brilliant

with light and magic.

 

Anodynes are soothing

relaxation worthy, a

comfort.

.

Or killer of pain

or dull to boring

or incontroversial.

.

Synecdoch is speech configured

be a part as the entirety

the letter of the word

the idea that overwhelmes

to the point of totality

as in sail for boat

or ink for poet.

 

Stella L. Crews

12-04-15

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13 December 2015 - 6:11am — and_hera_met_zeus
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you're absolutely right

about the words and their intended meaning.  it was from a dream, so i chose to keep it as close to the original as i could, which unfortunately makes it really inaccessible for a lot of people.  i'm glad you dove right into it.  i think in the dream my brain was trying to say we are each a tiny universe that is wholly representative of the universe itself, like fingers of god.  and i think it was pointing to nature its ebbs and flows as a source of comfort when we are in pain.  if i had written it while awake, i would have made that more clear.