Monday, May 18, 2026

as sleeping dogs lie

should we address the
pink elephant in the room
or just let sleeping dogs lie

I want to believe that 
everything will turn out fine
but my brain won’t let me
fall for lofty dreams

I watch our world fall
into chaos once more


- Written for dVerse Quadrille #248   This wasn't an easy prompt for me but I still gave it shot.  Let me kow what you think.

8 comments:

  1. I am watching with you, wondering if chaos is our new normal. A timely and perfectly conceived quadrille.

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  2. Keep believing. Though things may have to get worse before they get better. At least the chaos is mostly only coming from one place at the moment. Nice write 👏

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  3. I like the crossed metaphor of the sleeping dogs and the pink elephant. I can see it all, clearly. I wish the future was that clear of an image, but we will get there. There is love. And there is poetry.

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  4. We have a saying here that "there is dog buried here", to mean that something is not right (usually a lie)... which made me think that might have been the root to what happened.

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    1. I like that saying. Thanks for reading Bjorn.

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