26 thoughts on “Lived Dream”

  3. Kind of off topic, but I found a quarter-sized sea shell on a Montreal street. It has red lines down the back. I’ll take a picture one of these days and post it on my blog. So odd to find a seashell in Montreal or maybe not? But first time I’ve ever seen one. And so I thought about that just now because of the dream and life in your poem and how you’ve succeeded in my opinion of overlapping them so life is a dream and dream is a life and oh yeh,
    “treetops brook a telescope heart”
    “your other self gains Antlers and roams the woods.”
    I just shake my head in awe

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    1. A seashell in Montreal, sounds like a poem. I’ll have to look that up too. I guess it could have at one point been a seabed. I agree, there is an overlap of dream and life. For good and bad, I guess. I’m glad you liked this one. Thanks!! And it looks like the Yankees are just going to get smoked.

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      1. I hand the baton over to you my friend – a seashell in Buffalo.

        I can’t figure out the exact reason why I don’t like the Dodgers. I think I would have liked them when they were in Brooklyn. I stayed with a friend in Brooklyn for two years and i never lost the feeling of exploration when I was there, sometimes just heading outside to the local Burger King.

        All that to say I think the Yankees can win tonight and if they do, and Judge gets hot and it almost feels inevitable he will and then….

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      2. I agree about Brooklyn. I’ve had the opportunity to stay there too. And I just loved walking around. You never know. And it would be something special if the Yankees came back.

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      3. my friend moved from brooklyn to minneapolis so that kinda sucks because i would have nowhere to crash in brooklyn if i went there to go see some mets and yankees games. she wasn’t a big baseball fan but she liked that i was and we both loved to drink. Anyway, i’m gonna be pissed off if the yankees lose tonight.

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      7. I’m trying to remember if the Yankees went down 0-3 against the Braves I think back in 96 World Series? Of course I could just look this up on line. But I think it’s better to remember it 0-3 and channel that energy tonight.

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      8. Funny because the Dodgers manager Dave Roberts stole that base in game 4 of the 2004 ALCS that led to the Red Sox tying the Yankees and eventually winning the game, then they won three more to win the ALCS, and then four in a row to win the world series. Cool way to end that Ruth jinx. I’m hoping the Yankees can come all the way back. I think it would be the first time in WS history that a team came back and won after being down 0-3. Who woulda thunk the polar ice caps woulda started melting? Or then again and I think we’ve talked about this, but according to some thinkers, we are currently living in the 6th extinction phase, that life has gone extinct five times before and then revived and these extinctions take a long time, but if it’s true we could call ourselves the extinct generation and end all this GEN X AND GEN Y nonsense can get us back to the extinct generation, all of us, regardless of age and whatever. Holy crap, I’m drunk and high and preaching. Sorry about that. But just to say that it’s time now for Dave Roberts to have happen to him what happened to the Yankees in 2004. Losing after being up 3-0. GO YANKEES!

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  5. I love this Bob. Fantastic imagery. Seeing its breath now that winter is almost here somehow manages to bring the imagery to another level. Or adds another dimension. I can feel frost in the air. So cool.

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  7. That first stanza speaks to me. To push aside work and the bills and “Let the wild rumpus start!” And not just in the woods, because I really like that you included “mirrors” in the stepping and exploring. So to the woods and Wonderland and all sorts of other worlds. 🌞

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    1. Thanks Dave. I love the Where the Wild Things Are reference. This certainly has that vibe. I usually read the Alice books once a year. I haven’t done it yet. Maybe I can that in before the year is over.

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  8. Unknown's avatar Anonymous says:

    “Brook” is an intriguing verb. Usually you see it in a sentence like “He would brook no etc.”–wouldn’t tolerate something. So apparently the treetops tolerate a telescope heart. But “brook” also harks back to (“reticulates with,” one of my old English profs used to say) “stream.”

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    2. Hi Dave. Yes, in the sense that the treetops would tolerate (or be open to, in a more positive sense) to the treetops. I think the word came to me because the branches are like brooks (streams) and then I looked up its etymology and found that meaning as well. And there is something about the foregrounding of a tree (especially without leaves) against the sky and/or moon, that brings it closer. Hence the telescope. Etymology might be nerdy. And I’m certainly no expert. But it’s interesting to find that extra meaning in a word.

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