Connected
In a dream, you were asked to follow,
to behold the soft things in the air
and beneath the earth, the seeds, roots—
the ifs of gardens, forests, meadows,
the cycles of darkness and light calling
the ancient songs of stars
echoed by birds, whispered by bees.
You listen, hold the secret close,
this deep-time ache carried in blood and bones,
every speck connected, and you smile.
My poem from the Oracle with special ifs for Derrick. She knew it was foggy this morning, and it seemed the world was full of dreams and secret things. I took this photo today at the park. This is the garden at the entrance to the eighteenth-century Whithall House. It would have been the back of the house then, as the front faced the river.
Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings 
This is eerily similar to mine. To listen, to follow–yes. (K)
I just read yours–yes.
I am smiling at your offering from the Oracle, Merril! 😊
That’s a good thing, Ingrid! Thank you!😊
I smiled at the ifs even before I saw it was for me 🙂
I’m pleased, Derrick. 😊
Oh yes. This is so very lovely.
Thank you so much, Dale!
Pleasure is all mine!
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This is lovely! I know I made my message very personal to my day, but in fact, the words and images, meadow, garden, and that blood and bone connection that goes back through time, could be that same smiling child.
Oh gosh–when I re-read it now, after I’ve read yours, it could be everything you described! 😊
It’s so strange how this works! It’s either our lives are connected, or every life is connected and we (via the Oracle) pick out the essentials.
Perhaps it’s a bit of both. 😊 It is so strange though.
I wonder if we could try an experiment, something like taking one or two pages from a novel instead of the magnets, see if we still get the same similarity in the results.
We could try it. 🙂
I’ll try it out. If it’s not like found or erasure poetry it ought to work.
So, are you just going to take a random page and choose words like it was the Oracle?
I’ll try that. One page maybe won’t give the variety of words though, unless it’s a very short poem.
OK. Hmmm. . .maybe I’ll try it, too. Though I’m supposed to be working. 😏 Then we’ll have two totally random sources.
I’ll find a page and do one quickly. If it works I’ll post the page and you (and Kerfe if she’s up for it) can write one when you have time. If it’s a flop, you might find a better source.
OK. Sounds good!
I’m having second thoughts. First, taking a photo of a page from a novel and be able to read it is difficult. Second, the words make phrases with meanings and it’s hard to take them out of context. Also, there’s usually a lot of dialogue in a novel which isn’t very inspiring. I’ll go out for a walk before the storm starts and have a look later.
I just found some random word generators online. I wonder if they’d work.
Might do. I’ve given up with the page of text idea. I just read it. The brain must assimilate it as a whole because we’ve learned to read. We don’t just see random words any more.
I had a look and found one that works well. The words are quite varied and you can see them all at once. Some of the sites produce a long list that you have to scroll down. I’ll try one now.
Sounds good! 🙂
I got a selection of 100 words here. Can you see the selection from this link?
https://anytexteditor.com/word-generator
No, I just see the generator. That’s one I looked at. So, did you keep clicking till you got 100
No there’s a box at the top that asks how many words you want. I’ll post a screen shot and add my poem after you’ve written yours, just as an experiment.
OK. 🙂
Those last three lines made my morning.
Thank you so much, Liz. I’m so pleased!
You’re welcome, Merril!
Wonderful, Merril!
You do bring dreams into your verse time and again.
I always relate. In this one, I followed. The journey was different. The end, the same.
Thank you, Resa! I suppose dreams fascinate me. 💙
💙 Me too!
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Lovely poem and it goes perfectly with the photo! The fog is both enchanting and dreamlike…like your poem!
Oh, that’s so lovely. Thank you, Linda!
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Connection is such an important concept. In our global society connections get dropped or lost along the way to things of lesser importance. Connection takes conscious effort from both parties.
That’s true, Dwight, and thank you for reading. On the other hand, technology means that connections can also be immediate in a way that would not have been possible in times past.
And as well, there are all sort of connections, we never know about.
You are welcome. I am grateful for my blog connections. They were most helpful during isolation of covid.
Yes they were! 💙