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Sand Castles
Under the sand are palaces. I’ve seen them in my dreams:
vast halls and empty chambers smoothly rounded at their seams.
Every wall is made of sand. Each ceiling, archway, floor––
as though carved by master craftsmen, digging at its core––
is so magnificent, you’d think they were the stuff of lore.
You may also see them, but you must provide the door.
Though the chambers are filled in, they’re there without a doubt.
You are the one creating them by what you will scoop out.
The beauty’s hidden in the sand, waiting in your sleep
for you to dig the castles out from where they’re buried deep.
All your day’s exhaustion your dream labor will abort,
for what you build in slumber is work of a different sort.
Sand brought to the surface is what you get to keep
of subterranean palaces dug out in your sleep.
As you build aboveground castles in the world that we all know,
you reveal the outward structure of the inner rooms below,
furnishing the magic that the world will see through you,
showing what’s inside of you by what you bring to view.
I’m going in for a medical procedure today, so no time to write a fresh poem. This is a rewrite of a poem from a few years ago that fits today’s prompt of “underground.”
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I hope that the procedure is nothing serious and that you are writing again very soon.
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Yes.. Home already and writing. My dogs are whining and dropping tennis balls outside my door so guess I need to go live life for awhile instead of continuing to write about it. Thanks for your concern, Dreamer.
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Best of health to you! Thought of you today as Meghan and The Reds were here to swim after school and Maia was having fun playing with that darling little caterpillar you brought for her. Hope all is well!
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Have the other kids received their toys yet? Ashley and the boys?
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Beautiful – and so is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxcftjJ39BU
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Jane, I love that video. I have watched it 5 or 6 times in the past. What incredible work.
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That man’s work never ceases to amaze me.
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