What is real

Are the fake flowers of this garden so real

Are the emotions pulling so hard towards my grave real

Does the pull of puppet man in real business real

Or what if nothing is real and everything is so unreal

Is your past present and future real

Is the shallow sigh when we walk is real

Is the sound of each breath real

Is the bursting laughter of infant and aged real

Author's Note

do you really exist

Reviews

[Aethereal]

You posed some deep psychological questions dealing with human perception and consciousness throughout this poem. Things are real for a moment, just a moment, and then something else is real for a moment. Reality is as malleable as modeling clay. We perceive ephemeral realities. Perception is dynamic. We each exist for a moment, and then we exist as something else for a moment ad infinitum.

[Linda alexander]

Thanks a lot for the beautiful review, so jealous of those who won't think a bit and live in the ocean of laughter and so sorry for the astute thinkers going real crazy every now and then, not sure which is real and worthy of wish list, take care

[Mary Bosworth]

This poem is wonderfully expressed. It has a natural rhythm and it feels its way into a readers heart. Well done!

[Linda alexander]

Thanks a lot for the review and kind words, take care

[Frieda P]

Sometimes you have to wonder, where does reality begin and end? Nicely pen'd Linda.

[Linda alexander]

Thanks a lot for the review my friend, take care, happy and safe 4th of July week end

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A lot deep questions, I find each day real and see the unreal as well. Just keep on keeping on.

[Linda alexander]

Yes friend keep on moving forward with steady or staggering feet as switching pace is a reality at times

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[Sami Khalil]

I come back to read this one. Excellent...:)...................

[Linda alexander]

Thanks a lot Sami, take care

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome...Take care...:).....

[Lydia Shutter]

What is real and what is imagined? A question we have all asked ourselves through the years. I liked the stream of consciousness in this one, Linda. Lydi**

[Linda alexander]

Thanks a lot for the review, take care my friend

[Sami Khalil]

I like this poem a lot Linda. It is real poetry between your wonderful questions. Bravo.........

[Linda alexander]

Thanks a lot Sami, so glad you liked it, so is man from mars real

[Sami Khalil]

Yep. You are welcome...:)....................

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

I love the deeply philosophical nature of this poem… so much of life is perception.

[Linda alexander]

Thanks a lot for the review, so glad you liked it, may in future real life may become a computer game which can be programmed to create certain way of living so we may have to find a different name for life in nomenclature