{"id":1990,"date":"2015-10-12T17:08:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T22:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2015-10-12T17:08:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T22:08:04","slug":"poem-dream-catcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/poem-dream-catcher\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Dream Catcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A daze work<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Over<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Come<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Bye sleep<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sow few dream catchers<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sow many dreams<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And that&#8217;s the catch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This poem is about work, vocation, passion, and burnout.\u00a0 This poem is mournful in that so many dreams go unrealized, uncaught.\u00a0 This poem is a hopeful invitation to pursue your dreams with more vigor, focus and intent.\u00a0 As the Bible so aptly points out, &#8220;The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.&#8221; (Matthew 9:37)\u00a0 Work is often tiring, as\u00a0being impelled to do stuff that is tiresome.\u00a0 Enough work and we burnout.\u00a0 Vocations, on the other hand, unleash passions and dreams.\u00a0 With excessive work we miss both sleep and dreaming with our eyes wide open.\u00a0 Vocations both generate dreams and actively invest time and life energy in pursuing said dreams.\u00a0 Still, having sufficient dreams is not generally the rate-limiting factor, unless we are totally burned out.\u00a0 Most often, paying dear attention to those dreams and befriending them with the freshest and best parts of us is what enables us to catch our dreams.\u00a0 May you organize your life in such a way that you are well-suited to catch your dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A daze work Over Come Bye sleep Sow few dream catchers Sow many dreams And that&#8217;s the catch This poem is about work, vocation, passion, and burnout.\u00a0 This poem is mournful in that so many dreams go unrealized, uncaught.\u00a0 This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/poem-dream-catcher\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[204,538,393,388,200,359,494,658,94,53,394,529,511,380],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-bible","tag-dream","tag-dreams","tag-hope","tag-jobs","tag-life","tag-passion","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-short-poems","tag-sleep","tag-time","tag-vocation","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Dream Catcher | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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