Dream Talk

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Chat GPT, dream mom

Time for a talk, or more for a listen,

I pray as I lay me down to sleep.

My mom’s voice, her face, I crave a vision

To help give me a needed treat.

I miss my mom, almost five years gone.

Her strength, her laugh, she was always there

To offer me stories, a tune to a song

In which truths and thoughts were often laid bare.

As my eyes close shut and my dreams begin

I hear her voice for which I so long.

The static is great though and I feel a pang

Til she says, “outside, outside, here is wrong.”

So, I traipse toward the thick woods near my home

Where birds trill and winter leaves wave and rustle.

Dozens of butterflies around me roam

Even in the dark they urge me to hustle

Toward a holy place, bound with a hush

‘Til mom starts to talk, words light as wings.

Nothing special, just a laugh and a chat lush

with love and a vow-like verse she sings:

Chat GPT butterflies in forest

“Know that I am here, like a butterfly glides

Within and without a sacred space

Of Spirit and Love that never hides

‘cause Life is Eternal, a tender Embrace.”

Dedicated to my mom, born Feb. 28. Do you ever have a dream visit from a loved one?

96 thoughts on “Dream Talk”

  1. Beautiful, Pam! We all loved your mom, our honorary Cantina Girl! She was fun and an inspiration to live life. Interesting that I’m reading this today, a day where I visited my mom at the cemetery and where I talked to her. When I left, she didn’t stay there, she came with me. We can talk to our moms anywhere and they’re always with us. They even talk back and make us smile. 💕

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    • Great memories of our Cantina girl times and my mom’s love of being accepted during her visits. In fact, her jokes were raunchier than ours!! 🙂 Yes, our loved ones’ spirits are with us, not in a cold cemetery. Thank GODness!

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    • Yes, Kate, yes I have this same experience. So, I just talk to my mom in my head and many times I hear her answers. I think I knew her so well that her responses are just natural to me. ❤ Thank you so much for sharing. Such love for our moms – it expands our living hearts.

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  7. A psychic told me that my mom would come to me in the form of a butterfly. I always see then and say “Hi Mom”. Happy Birthday in heaven to our moms!!!

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  8. The butterfly is a lovely image to communicate the spirit of your mom.

    My mother doesn’t appear in my dreams, but she has appeared vividly in both of my memoirs though she has been gone for almost 11 years.

    This is a beautiful tribute, Pam! ((( )))

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  9. This is just beautiful, Pam. I’m lucky I still have my mom around but this does apply to my father. He’s been gone 12 years next May and I still reach for the phone to ask him something or share or just to bug him. I miss him so much.

    Happy Heavenly birthday to your Mom. xoxo

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    • My heart just twisted for you, Dale, reading your comment. YES, I miss my dad as well and if I sit still enough, and close my eyes, I can still hear his voice (he had a beautiful sonorous voice) telling me he loves me. I bet you do the same thing. What a blessing. ❤

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  10. So lovely…and I love your mother’s commanding tone, LOL, in your dream: “outside, outside, here is wrong” directing you. My dad pops by now and then and his appearances in my slumber are always purpose-driven. Reminding me of something I’m missing. Thank you so much for sharing, Pam. Hugs and love to you! 💕

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  11. What a wonderful poem to the memory of your Mom. I often have visits with my Mom and Dad in my dreams, always as part of the dream plot. I can still hear her voice, but my Dad’s is a bit fainter since he died in 1991.

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    • The missing is always there, coupled with love and gratitude for all the mom/daughter time we had. My mom suffered the last few years of her life, so I was relieved when she flew off to a better place, but that she can visit from time to time. ❤

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  17. So beautiful, Pam. Your dream was moving and what a gift. I miss my mom too. I told her I loved her a lot, but I never seems like it was enough. A dream would be most welcome, and I suspect that one day it will come. Hugs. ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

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  18. This was a bit of a tear jerker, Pam, but so beautiful. I often wish I could have my mom back, even just for one day, but then the next thought is always the same; I couldn’t stand to go through the heartbreak of losing her all over again. But weren’t we lucky to have had our mothers?!

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  19. Such sweet memories, Pam. I’m sure you can hear your mom’s voice in your head, offering guidance. I consider my mom to be the most influential person in my life. She was literally the best person I’ve ever known, always kind and patient.

    I sometimes dream about my parents, but I think you’re talking about a different and deeper kind of visit. My wife says her dad visited her one night shortly after his death.

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  20. What a wonderful tribute to your Mum Pam… and what a beautiful soul your mother sounded to be…
    I have no doubts at all, she walks along side you often and whispers in your ear …
    She is only ever a whisper away…

    Lovely post and photos Pam.. I hope you are healing well also my friend xx ❤ Much love xx ❤

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  25. How special. It’s almost 4 years since we lost our Mom. I miss her every day. I guess I always will. I have never had a dream visit from her but I did have one from my Dad. It was so vivid. He told me that he was all right. I woke up happy.

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  26. You’ve written a beautiful tribute to your beloved mother.

    Yes, I had a dream of my late mother showing up in old clothes to clean woodwork. She was familiar but unsettling at the same time. She died five years ago, and I miss her every day.

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    • I’m smiling Liz because I think the detailed images of our mom (or dad) visiting us wearing something that maybe was long ago (like old clothes to clean woodwork – fabulous) makes the dream that much more real, even if unsettling. Yes, in some of my mom dreams she’s years younger and telling me what to do (something she did regularly in her own fun way). 🙂

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  28. Pam, this was so touching to read. I loved my mother more than anyone in my life. Although she has been gone for many years, she is always in my heart. She was giving, loving and kind. She adored her children and would do anything she could to make our lives better. I have her photo hanging on the wall in my bedroom so I see her every morning when I awake. I dreamed I saw her sitting at a table with some of her loved ones and she was laughing. I could not reach her but I was glad she was happy. Good mothers are never forgotten, and I had the best.

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  30. I miss my mom too. She died fourteen years ago at the age of 90. You say your mom was always there to offer you stories and the tune to a song. We can google lots of things but not the particular stories and songs we could always get from our moms. We should have memorized them better.

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  32. Not as much as I would like, but my son does visit. Here is a fun story: my son went to school in New Orleans and had a girlfriend who is a New Orleans resident. When his beloved Eagles Football Team played in the Super Bowl in NOLA, he visited her.

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  40. such a warm, beautiful post – with also the sadness that comes with loss and your mom sounds like she was extra special – and I liked this part:

    “Know that I am here, like a butterfly glides

    Within and without a sacred space…”

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