# Boggy Regrets  figures of speech far from straight-forward full of assumptions and dark turns driving conclusions potential complications it’s a Victorian thing to never say what you mean but take aim and shoot she’s not in the mood but says … please keep in touch cynical insight tells you you’ve left her … bitter and burnt-out fall into the drink indulge, well, really I shouldn’t in intentional tongue lashes letting the cat of the bag and Freudian slips trip on your phrasing delight in the hit swan about the lagoon of I’ll say what I mean and say what I want go ahead stick out your neck give a good squawk come ashore sober up, hang over fill up on sorrow and inhibitions and drown in the quagmire of your boggy regrets *Published in Monsters, Avatars, and Angels and is available in paperback and #kindle from Amazon.  # Nightmares to Lucidity  a tide away from the sea of lucid dreaming is a range of shifting shoals moonlight and waves shadows and starlight create a world of illusions the voice inhabiting the ribbed-sands will tell you you have awakened the realm you have emerged from was imaginary imaginary and full of monsters ... turn back fight the leviathans and gorgons it demands, or fall asleep again wake-up the sleeping beauties and somnambulist narcissists before they fall deeper still into the sinuous grasp of serpents enemies are everywhere reject and fight hide or flee  go ahead feed terror and anger joust with windmills save the world I ask you how can you be awake if you are still living a nightmare all existence is based on illusions the perceptions and preferences the fears and insecurities of beings contained within the formless mind sub-atomic space collisions and contrast experienced as solid who do you save when the tentacled limb you lob up is your own the connection unseen and ethereal how will you run when there is no solid land to find firm footing no place outside yourself you are only ever dreaming you have gained awareness when your enemies have transformed from foes to creatures of wonder ask yourself why do you create this way perhaps then you might truly wake-up and soon discover there is no need to shift your reality from nightmares to lucidity *Published in Monsters, Avatars, and Angels and available from Amazon in paperback and digital. 
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