Ten Thousand Dreams by Mike Turner

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Ten Thousand Dreams

I wake from these ten thousand dreams

Of sailing ships and flying wings

Of storm-tossed seas and sandy shores

Tonight to sleep and dream some more

To mountain heights and canyon depths

Ten thousand lives, ten thousand deaths

Of setting sun and morning light

To dream another dream tonight

Awake, asleep, each cycle new

Some black and white, some brightly hued

Some in the past, some present day

Some set in futures far away

And as each dawning page is turned

I now reflect on what I’ve learned

That nothing’s really as it seems

All this life’s just 

Ten thousand dreams

Author's Note: This poem was inspired by Yongbo Ma’s “Retrospect”, which FEED THE HOLY published on March 14, 2026. I read the first line (“I seem to wake from a thousand dreams”), and “Ten Thousand Dreams” immediately came to me,  pretty much fully formed. It was only later that I read the rest of Youngbo’s poem. So I am indebted to Yongbo and FEED THE HOLY for the inspiration. 

© Mike Turner

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Mike Turner

Mike Turner was named 2025 Poet of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society. He has more than 475 poems published in over 100 curated journals and anthologies. Mike’s poetry collection, Visions and Memories (Sweetycat Press, 2021), is available on Amazon.

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Poems about the Body and Soul by Mike Turner

 

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Poems about the Body
and Soul

Storm and Calm

We hold the storm

Lungs containing the wind

Voice, thunder 

Eyes cry the tears of rain

Pummeling our spirit with the fury of the tempest

We hold too the calm

Heartbeat slowing to the Earth’s rhythm

Breath as cool zephyrs

Whispered flutters of gossamer butterfly wings

Settling to the stillness of the night

Yin, yang

Dawn, sunset

Spring, summer

Autumn, winter

The mystery and magic of infinite eternity

All held in the oneness of our souls

Body and Light

Our bodies

Are but lanterns

‘Tis our spirits

Are the light

Lattice

We are all part

Of an interconnected web

Intersecting the physical and spiritual planes

‘Tis not a net ensnaring us

But rather a lattice, a framework, sustaining us

As we strive to understand

Ourselves, our fellows

The world, and the cosmos

Which, together

We each and all comprise

And, they, us

© Mike Turner

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Mike Turner

Mike Turner was named 2025 Poet of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society. He has more than 475 poems published in over 100 curated journals and anthologies. Mike’s poetry collection, Visions and Memories (Sweetycat Press, 2021), is available on Amazon.

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