Vampires and Smooth Waking Stones
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I did have a dream last night, they come very few and far between but it was a doozy full of vampires and love saved the day..
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I had to write with its aroma still within range.
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Vampires and Smooth Waking Stones belongs to the following groups:
"Poetry and Beautiful Women" , JPG Cast-Offs, Lifeline, Light In The Darkness, Midnight Ramblers, The Red Writing Room, Up & Coming Writers and Writing: Persuing HappinessVampires seem to strike at midnight
Sucking the fun out of what was just embraced
They fly into kaleidoscope moments, the kind
That were hidden by dusk shifting compromise
Discoveries like treasure chests with minted
Epiphanies and knowledge don’t mean anything
When the world is closed down to acceptance
Of the variable kind.
Dreaming is different, it is like asking for more than
‘What Is’
Vampires cannot enter nor even find the door
Notions are like pebbles in the river,
Smoothed over by running water that refreshes every time
Are picked up and kept in ones pocket
Like a lucky charm
I rule the world with my smile, and whip everyone
Into shape by laughing at myself,
For my unhappiness
(Which cannot survive here for long)
Is always of my own concoction sometimes a heady
Mix of exceptional virtue splashed with a bit of ‘I was
Born of this realm and unfortunately you were not.”
It is then I find myself speaking in tongues and the snakes
Start to hissing (not a good sign)
I acquiesce right before the hissing gets too loud
For the desire of this land is to feel good
It is then I leap into one of the hundreds of elevators
Available at any Turn of ones way
I press ‘up please’.
This elevator will only take
Me up one floor at a time so some call this ride
The ‘Next best floor’.
Thinking gets lighter and a mirrored room with carnival
Music is playing
I enter and today I see a thousand fingers
Pointing directly back at me,
And to think all I was feeling was
‘You don’t know shit’…
Hummm glad it was just a bit of human conditioning that
Got my attention today and not the overwhelming stuff like
Politics. (teehee)
Ok I say,
I know this room
I have been here a thousand times all ready
And so I begin to
Accept
Me myself and I.
All my own ‘stinking thinking’ gets shuffled around in a
Game of Texas Hold Em
I am then guided back to the elevator and stop off at each
Floor feeling better and better until I get to the leveler of
All the fine floors called The Grand Ballroom of Hope
I hang out and smoke up kissing boys
Pass time braiding ribboned hair girls
I no longer care who is king or queen here
All the celebrating they do when one reaches this
Floor feels infectious and I start to practice abandon.
Today the celebration is of the unknowable kind.
The music sits well and my partner (how do I know he is
My partner?) Sees me across the Room. We have
Magnet Eyes, just exactly like movies portray
He is smiling and engages feelings like
He loves every inch of me down to my most
Unlovable places.
He holds my hand and pulls me
Close to his body
My head is on his shoulder as I feel a bit
Worn out from the ride and tenderly he says:
Welcome my darling to your unknowable lover.
Fascinating and handsome in a quirky kind of way
I look up to meet his sparkling eyes. Then I glance
Round the room and see everyone is toasting and raising
Their glasses in my direction
Celebrating my acceptance of a lover who
Crowns me in my own garden and takes my
Foot as I picture Mary did to Jesus, and anoints me
With the knowledge I was missing.
(Vampires have a way of attracting the innocent).
My lover looks a lot like me. He smiles and says “why
Not my darling we care for the same things, we both want
To be happy and I promise you” he says:
“Like you I believe that nothing is more important than that I feel good”.
He promised me that I need not take stock every day of his feelings or concerns that he will not be dependent on how I view him for he will stay connected as best he can to Source;
The only place we both agreed true happiness is ‘Sourced’ from.
For as we both pay attention to our own connection to who we really are we can meet more often each other, in the light of experiencing more joyful unions and moments.
When our meeting does not feel good we will go to our perspective elevators and take each floor up, as it is our own journey to find a way back to our own connection to Source.
Ahhh I felt so much elation as I promised to do the same.
I felt relief
And I felt I had found someone I could grow old with.
But here in this land there was no death so growing old
Was a rather misunderstood notion.
Hummm I do believe I picked up that smooth stone
Of wonder and put it in my pocket
It was then I heard the blood curtailing cries of “what is”
I woke up
I saw them circling round above my bed
Red-eyed devils…
But this time before I got out of bed
I lay for a few minutes smiling and remembering my dream
Oh my! Being held in my lovers arms and listening to
Those soft whispers of love felt so so good.
I was beaming and began to ‘feel’ the possibilities
Of the Here and Now.
For what are dreams but unrealized realities?
Linaji 2009
JenLand
Wow! Wow! Wow! LOVE this Linaji. :o) You put into words so well the work of manifesting our desires. Picking up smooth stones of wonder, riding the elevator up, my unhappiness can’t last long here and is of my own making, feeling possibilities and the fantastic topper! dreams are unrealized realities!! Bravo!!!!!!
linaji replied
Jen,, I so so so so sooooooooooooo appreciate you. I thought of you clearly when I posted.. I swear I did and who was first to comment ..I AM SO FARGEN HONORED.. I LOVE YOU JEN!
F.A. Moore
Grand story, Lina, a wonderful read.
I rule the world with my smile, and whip everyone
Into shape by laughing at myself,...
...I see you here. It’s a pot of gold to be able to laugh at oneself. :D
linaji replied
Have got to tell you same.. thanks Fran. I am so busy with jobs outside of here and developing my own business that I am sorely lacking in my view of amazing work like yours.. I simply do not know how you do it all.. I am completely happy when I see you. Yes.. laughing at ones own notions of who one is helps me so dang much!! xxx
Quinn Blackburn
Marvelous wordcrafting… bewitching and thoughtful. Love it!
:) wishing you laughter
Trenchtownrock
Lin, stay away from the late night cocktails my friend..LOL…I was so caught up in this moment and to have them flying above your bed and all…so enchanting…this read like a dream..a moment that will live in the memory bank for a while….yet I still think you and your lovely pen should ease up with the late night parties..enjoyable read.
linaji replied
well sometimes I do wish I still drank but that went gone 11 years ago with every other blood sucking compromise!! I just flew to your work and see you been beating off Vamps too! lolol
Sally Omar
Absolutely Amazing…this is one of your writings that I do not have the right words for …
it is beyond brilliant!!!! Love You!!!! xoxooxoxoxoxox
linaji replied
Wow Sally.. I am always so glad to see you as I know your life is quite ‘alot’ these days..infact I am hornored.. I can’t keep up with my new business.. so I think I am taking more than I should.. thanks ever so much for your kindness.. my computer is on the lamb for a few days and even the blog I wanted to complete today is impossible.. I have all my info on that computer.. lucky the store Apple backed all my stuff up but not till Monday!! whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..Love you and thanks sweetheart.
RuthFroehlinger
An amazing piece of writing, such capturing words in a most capturing story – right to the very END (of here and now).
linaji replied
lololol yes Ruth that here and NOW!! so good to see you and forgive as I have not been a very good bubbler in the last few weeks.. I shall pop over your way today! sending you HUGS!
Vasile Stan
Ah, Lina, what a trip that was (and still is!)... and yes, dreams are realized and complete realities on the planet of Soul with heart being the wittness… so help me the One.
You own what you dream.
linaji replied
Hi V.. so glad to see you today.. without my engine..(Mac in shop till Monday) so I feel a bit off kilter.. you always fill me up with your straight talk! lolol thank you V. xxx
Kristin Reynolds
I see you have them in your midnight bedroom, too? I have one nightmare shadow that has been haunting me for a very long time…shaking my walls with his eyes. seriously…they sucks. literally! lol sorry, lina, wonderful poetry, hun. thanks goodness for love and understanding. K xo
linaji replied
yes the love and understanding sometimes comes at times when we least expect it. thank goodness indeed.
dawndavies
wow such talent, fabulous piece,dawnxx
linaji replied
Hi Dawnie.. love back and a roar!
happyfeet5
This is great Linaji. Love the way you put your dreams into writing. Love the elevator ride and I especially love vampires and their stories. I guess they would be your monsters, by I find them to be sexy. lol Iris
ambient-1
What are dreams? Depends upon who you ask. I’m heartened that were able to find shelter from the vampires in the arms of love. As well it should be. An appropriate tale for this time of year! Well done Linaji!
autumnwind
Incredible writing. I have vivid bizarre dreams and you make me think I might want to try to write them down. This was captivating, and there much to think about within, for sure. Many great lines will stay with me. Awesome. Hugs to you, shar xoxoxo
jim marshal
Well there you go, you talk of story and dream being the great ILLUMINATOR of story that goes on underscoring the bright day, and last night it was a stop-over in the elevator as the vibration lifts and all of those ghouls that put a curfew on your Holy Fun. For someone who says she struggles with words, you certainly have a tremendous freedom with them and convey experience very well.
The vampire is a figure that I have never contended with directly and dont really understand the whole myth completely. But here, I ask what would they want from someone that is so desirable? To me, they almost appear here like your audience, and perhaps the ghoulish exterior is a fear porojection? That if that wasn’t there… maybe just you’re left with a swooning audience who so desparately want you to do your thing because you are one of the greats.
Don’t mean to impose my interp. over yours, but it just occurred to me. Your audience is hungry, and you have handed out these appertisers but maybe now its main course time, or a change of gear again?
linaji replied
the only reason I am answering so dang quick is cause I am laughing so much in a very sweet way.. you know the sweet Linaji? lolol Jim I will take your interpretations anyday!!!
I am using loosely vampires cause really they too are of my own ‘concoction’..
I must also thank you for the first paragraph as perhaps I need to end that story too ‘Lina ain’t good with words’...
This writing came from what I am discovering today as that feeling that I shall never know the ‘other’ and that means everyone ‘out’ there..you, brother, foe and fateful passerby.
and by know it is really saying.. do you really ‘know me?’ selfish a bit I know.
Today I feel lonely plain and simple and it is because I am wanting to be loved. So I wrote this upon awakening and fancied my dream a bit with a what I deem at this juncture a perfect ‘other’ but really I have made a plea to me. Remember Linaji.. you only know me/we .. and there I shall end this comment as I preferred the laughing I experienced reading some of what your sent my way.
erich biemer
as if you should have anything to fear from energy vampires…the light on your path of joy will burn them away…..
JaneSolomon
Oh Lina…this is just so good…..wonderful…..you really have ‘it!’ xxxx
Lisa Jewell
A powerful and liberating epic piece my darling, the battle rages on but the truth of our dreaming destiny reigns within our veins, I believe in order to direct us into the reality of our choosing.
I sometimes have to wonder if we are in fact a parasitic species, if we were to be only the feeder, we would soon drain all life from those around us. Perhaps we need to bare our teeth and our neck simultaneously. Just some thoughts kicking around in my head.
I love you xoxox
linaji
GOOD GOD.. I DO BELIEVE YOU!! I simply do not know sometimes when my moments of becoming Kali like and mean show up. Usually around men and I must look closely at this.. if I can love my father I can love anyone and learn ways to stop my self pity. for me it is self pity that will destroy my joy. So we are ok as a Species.. we are developing and finding our way to higher ground, it is all the undeserved casualties on the way to ourselves and others that need to be seen and the desire for a better way to be and lived asked for and expected to be received. I am so full of my dark side today. I am going out now to a class with a teacher that aids in bringing me back inside my body.. I am not here darling one.. thank you for loving me..
Devalyn Marshall
Wow! This was so wonderful and exciting to read!
Keith Reesor
Wonderful writing Linaji!! Dreams are movies for the soul!!
They let is play out our most secret desires!! :)
hsien-ku
I’m getting the next goddamned elevator to The Grand Ballroom of Hope and putting the smooth stone Of wonder in my pocket! an astonishing, magical write – something between the wasteland and charlie and the chocolate factory! my head is spinning with your fantastic images!
linaji replied
you have me reeling.. and I love this comment from you.. take my hand sista!! Lets go again!!! lolol thanks so much you made my evening soar!
TheWanderingBoo
wow, i’m speechless…incredibly awesome writing…
ricardo perez jr
love dis