Image by Ursuala Castillo on Unsplash, Used with permission.
Knit and Purl
Back and forth between my worlds, a steady pace I keep,
weaving between consciousness and much-needed sleep.
I interlace the two into what becomes a life:
dreamer, writer, parent, teacher, artist, wife.
I am both what I dream of and the one who dreams,
and somehow in the dreaming, I join me at the seams.
Thus I am both facer and the one I’m facing.
I’m in the dream and out of it with both parts interlacing.
Which part of me goes with me when I leave this world?
Will it be the knitter or the one who purled?
As this fabric of my being slowly comes unknit,
both the knitter and the purler will unravel it.
Image by Judy Dykstra-Brown
I hope I’m not on the dunny when the call comes for me to leave this world 😀 😀
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I was just talking about that yesterday with a friend. It has happened to a few famous people I know of.
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Not where I would like to be bum or head first. Not like Lupe Velez the “Mexican Spitfire” of the 20’s & 30’s. She apparently wanted to die so she laid herself on the bed all dressed in white surrounded by flowers. She swallowed a fatal dose of 75 Seconal tablets. Unfortunately she was found dead with her head in the toilet after a bit of vomiting
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Oh no..Now I have to check to see if this is a true story and if so, to inquire how you know of it?
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I heard it on Dr Murray Banks recording played to a class I was taking at the time. He is a psychologist with a bit of humour
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I had never even heard of her so you were ahead of me in this. i had to look up the facts.
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Luckily, that version of her death is an urban legend, although the whole story is both tragic and sad (and new to me._ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupe_V%C3%A9lez#Death
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Thanks 🙂
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That is a deep one
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I woke up at 1 a.m. with leg cramps, went out to the hot tub and fell asleep. Started writing this in the hot tub because of a dream I had but not sure how much made it into the finished poem.
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🙂
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A profound look at life.
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Great words that flow beautifully.
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