Nailing down Clouds

Nailing Down Passing Clouds

On awakening from a vivid dream

~ often I will think "that's so good, I will never forget it"

Then I do.

If I have pencil & notepad available & am motivated enough,

I can bang it down in note form.

I often feel that a set of notes contain enough information

for me to remember the whole image or story,

to unlock the dream memory.

{I often put notes down like that when I am absorbed in something - something crops up, I write it down and then it isn't bothering me.

Those great thoughts & ideas, like in a waking moment and all the world is clear to you.

Or maybe it’s a precise thought and you do remember what its about later, but without that one little important bit. 
In fact, the key to it.

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I was paddling back to my houseboat on Dal Lake

one red sunset,

when flock after flock of birds passed overhead.

I sat & let them go.

Later that evening I became annoyed with myself for not taking a photograph

& resolved to return the next day.

I didn't realise that this was probably a one day annual event

& when I went back, same time, next day

~ there wasn't a bird in the sky.

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nailed