When I first read this haiku by JazzyTower from Thoughts and Entanglements I had an idea of what I wanted to write to complete it but then I read Jen’s Winding/Woven at Blog it or Lose it and it inspired a different slant to my renga and haiku to complete this hokko.
Here is Jen’s completion:
winding through past life
foreign tongues absorbed in dreams
sense of home prevails (c) Jazzytower
woven into a poem
fading quickly at sunrise (c) Jen R
Here is our host, Chèvrefeuille’s completion:
winding through past life
foreign tongues absorbed in dreams
sense of home prevails (c) Jazzytower
hear! monks chant Om Mani Padme Hum
spreading peace all around the globe (c) Chèvrefeuille
It was that second line “foregn tongues absorbed in dreams” that formed my original stirring and Jen’s post completed the potion. For the past twenty odd years, I often dream lucid dreams. I can change some things and it’s like I am co-editor of my film now and then EXCEPT for nightmares. I am aware where I am, I am fully concious I want to get the heck out of Dodge but that editor in chief just will not let me. Man, that is a terrible feeling and when I wake up I do NOT want to go back to sleep…all lights are on and time to stay awake for a while reading or writing.

winding through past life
foreign tongues absorbed in dreams
sense of home prevails (c) Jazzytower
stuck in this twilight zone
clawing out in muted screams
sequinned in sweat,
facing sighs of relief, Home!
Home! home at last. (c) Tournesol