The puzzle I am working on
Likely won’t get done.
Too many pieces might be lost–
I find another one!
My puzzles rest when I’m asleep.
The day has lost its light.
Like a child may angels keep
Me safe through day or night.
Text: Linked to dVerse Quadrille. Mish is hosting and the prompt word is “puzzle”.
Photos: “Yellow Smiles”, above, “Evergreen Green”, below.
Is an a missing from sleep? No need to respond. (Please delete this Frank)
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Unless you really insist, I’ll delete it, but I like your point about there being something missing, like one of my lost puzzle pieces, from the word sleep. Thank you!
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Your blog, your rules. I like that idea of the missing piece.
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I see the problem you were referring to. It should have been “I’m asleep”, not “I’m sleep”. At least that is what I think it is supposed to mean right now.
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I think we need going to sleep with some pieces missing… some we found in our dreams.
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Very good point. That’s when I tend to figure things out. Thanks, Bjorn!
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Angels & spirit guides & higher Self have led me into some very dark spaces. Now battered & off-balance, I do wonder what lessons I have learned from suffering?
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Others learn from our suffering as well even if we miss the lesson. There is always compassion to learn and relearn. Thank you, Glenn!
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now that’s an interesting thought, as you’ve presented it here, Frank, so much so that I had to stop and think on it for some time, and reply to this reply;
not everyone learns from another’s suffering – one has to know of another’s suffering, and see it – to truly understand it, layer by layer, non-judgmentally – in truthful compassion, empathy etc.
and if it isn’t revealed, or one has not the inclination to see, to know – then the lessons go on, yes, but the meanings and possibility of another benefiting and learning are lost – in that moment –
so then, what? which is maybe why “feelings of futility and purposelessness” seem to breathe the fires of hell …
(just a rhetorical question here – and musings – and curiosity, too)
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We aren’t isolated individuals. We are tied deeply with empathy, but we won’t know what the other person is really experiencing. We can guess and then maybe we can learn something. Maybe not, but the opportunity is there.
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An interesting perspective to be sure …. but from where I sit, and from so much of what I’ve witnessed, there is an awful lot of selfishness and “blindness” going on. At any rate …. it is possible. Some “come to it” sooner than later. Others not. C’est la vie.
And thanks for answering my musings ~ it is appreciated Frank.
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For me, this has a lovely lyrical quality – like a lullaby.
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I tried to make it sound like a lullaby and hopeful have some sense to convey although I don’t know what that sense is at the moment any more. Thank you, Jo!
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Too bad we don’t get to stay around to finish the puzzle of life!!
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I’m glad we can’t solve it. That means it is deeper than we expected it to be and maybe more blessed than we can imagine. Thank you, Roth!
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Yes, I believe the same as you do.
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Sometimes if we lose too many pieces, we have to redefine “done.”
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Very good point. The puzzle I’m working on with my daughter has been done many times–and then we see how another piece fits. Thank you, Maggie!
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Would be nice to sleep like a baby at night – those puzzle pieces just keep churning.
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They can keep one up. If they want to get solved they should let us sleep so we can see the answer. Thank you, V.J.!
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ah, it feels like more than one puzzle here, the physical one and the other one of life.
I too tripped over “I’m sleep” expecting “asleep” but presume one becomes “sleep.”
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You’re right about “I’m sleep”. I changed it to “I’m asleep”. One of the reasons I make an audio is to try to catch such mistakes. Thank you, Sascha!
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There’ll be more and more puzzle pieces missing as time goes on in our life. They may show up later and they may not. I just look at the part that is done. A nice poem. Thank you for sharing, Frank.
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It is good just to look at the part that’s done. The other pieces may pop into place. Thank you, Miriam!
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You’re welcome, Frank. I remember putting a puzzle together, especially the ones with thousands of pieces, I have to ignore some missing pieces. Somehow if they’re not lost, they’ll come up eventually. Hopefully, I could say the same in life,
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My puzzles rest when I’m sleep.
now that is a captivating line – intriguing in itself – and not for the unexpected “missing ‘a’ ” ….
as someone else mentioned, this has a lullaby feeling to it, a prayer too – as if both the release is a reset and allowance for things to work themselves out (which they tend to anyhow) in sleep and/or dreams – or just generally, as they tend to do in waking life … no matter how much we fret and puzzle over it all …
interesting 44 here …. leaves me wondering and yet content 🙂
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Actually, it was supposed to be “I’m asleep”. I just changed it. Or perhaps it meant something totally different earlier in the day that I don’t quite remember. I usually try to write metrical lullabies. I figure if the poem doesn’t make sense may it will at least sound good. Thank you!
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LOL@ if it doesn’t make sense, it will sound good! Cheers to that!
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Puzzles do not rest when we are asleep. They form the subconscious mind 🙂
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Good point, Reena. I’m not sure why I wrote that line. They are trying to get solved even when we are asleep. Thank you!
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My puzzles tend to go haywire when I sleep.. 😅 this is a wonderfully lyrical quadrille, Frank 💖
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When getting up I don’t always find my puzzles resolved either–but sometimes something interesting happens. Thank you, Sanaa!
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Always love your rhyming, Frank!
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Thank you, Lillian!
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Such a lyrical write Frank. Beautiful.
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Thank you, Linda!
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hope you never complete your puzzle as that is what makes your poetry so compelling
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I doubt I will. Thank you, Laura!
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I like that your puzzles are resting when you sleep (even if they are being worked out in your dreams). I like the lullaby quality of this, too.
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Puzzles and dreams work together. I am glad you enjoyed the sound of this. Thank you, Merril!
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That’s the trouble with the puzzle of life: we keep missing pieces, and have never seen the picture on the box cover! 🙂
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Good point about the box cover. We don’t even know what the final result should look like. Thank you, Frank!
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My pleasure, Frank!
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Awwww. This is sweet, like a nursery rhyme. I wish ALL puzzles slept. I am a victim of Busy Brain. 😉
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It is that nursery rhyme at the end. Thank you, De!
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Very nice and thought provoking piece.
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Thank you, Maria!
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This is one lilting lullaby!
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I am glad you liked the sound. Thank you!
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I did! You’re welcome!
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This resonates with me. So many puzzles, so little time and many unfinished. Nice quadrille. 😊
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Thank you, Mish!
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Hidden Puzzle
Pieces
Life’s
Peace and
Harmony Secret
of Love ever changing..:)
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Love’s secret does seem to be ever changing. Thank you, Fred!
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Multi-colored
Wings Angels
OF LoVE
Do Wear..:)
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I hadn’t thought of those wings being multi-colored until now, but why not very colorful wings.
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SMiLes.. thanks
Frank..:)
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