Tuned In for a Stream of Consciousness Saturday #SoCS

Today is supposed to be very hot with poor air quality due to smoke. It feels like a good day to stay inside with the blinds drawn and he fan on high for a stream of consciousness Saturday. And I’m in luck! Today’s prompt is “tune.”

Tunes for Tuning Out While Tuning In

Today is a good day to tune out, turn the dial
to the snow and static
leave the rabid dogs to foment and stir the eternal fires
leave the smoke and the heat
on the other side of the blinds
and tune in to a hope for a better day,
the day that will come
when facts become facts again,
but until then, I can create my own tunes,
and sing them loud to block out the noise

I can tune up the sound vibrating inside,
not as easily as I tune my bass,
but with time and practice I can tighten my strings
or loosen as needs be, until I am completely tuned

Today is a good day to tune out, let my vision unfocus,
enjoy the blur, the color of the lights in the mirrors
reflecting my reality back to me,
not their delusion that they want so badly to see though a lie
told a million times still isn’t true. 

In here I get to shape the light as I will,
into anything I want to see and it isn’t a lie, exactly.
Only a tiny bit of momentary happy that I have no reason to defend.
How will I tune their vibrations? What do I want to see?
What do I want to capture to share?

Today is a good day to tune out the world
tunes in my headphones help me refocus
on what’s important in this moment
and it isn’t out there though I’m still waiting
for him to tell me which tune I was dancing to in his dream
so I can be in it while I”m dancing later

*I didn’t expect this to come out as a poem, but it did. I added the title after the stream of consciousness poem.

For today’s image I tried a new composition, wrapping fairy lights around the plastic loops that held my collapsible laundry basket together, and hanging the three-loop globe in my mirrorworld. I’m excited to start experimenting with it.