If it doesn’t whisper in your dreams
waking you up with a racing heart
it’s not your passionIf it doesn’t make you burn the midnight oil
creating more time out of the ether
It’s not your passionIf it doesn’t carry you through the air
as if riding a fire-breathing dragon
it’s not your passionIf it doesn’t resemble a form of madness
causing others to question your sanity
it’s not your passionIf it doesn’t consume or devour you
blinding you to all around-Do Something Else!
It’s not your passion
©Vivian Zems
Day 24
Smell The Coffee 
April 24, 2018 at 8:32 am
As I read your poem, all I could hear was write write write.
Seems like each line of your poem is a good evaluation of passion.
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April 24, 2018 at 6:27 pm
Thanks Namratha !
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April 24, 2018 at 8:33 am
Really loved this poem. Passion is such an pure, unbridled and powerful force. Thanks for sharing!
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April 24, 2018 at 6:25 pm
My pleasure! Thanks for dropping by 😊
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April 24, 2018 at 9:08 am
Gorgeous!💞 And yes passion is another form of madness!💞
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April 24, 2018 at 6:24 pm
It is! 😁
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April 24, 2018 at 10:24 am
So true!!! Passion and how it should make you feel…. perfectly described.
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April 24, 2018 at 6:20 pm
Thank you! 😊
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April 24, 2018 at 11:39 am
Love it! Oh to have the courage to follow our passion – no compromises.
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April 24, 2018 at 6:20 pm
Thanks LC!
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April 24, 2018 at 12:31 pm
I was nodding agreement … then the sudden, “Do Something Else,” breaking the pattern at just the right moment, made me laugh out loud – still in agreement. 😀
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April 24, 2018 at 6:17 pm
Thanks Rosemary ! 😊
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April 24, 2018 at 12:57 pm
Absolutely Beautiful and True!🌟🐲🌟 Love it: “If it doesn’t make you burn the midnight oil creating more time out of the ether…”
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April 24, 2018 at 6:16 pm
Thanks ! Glad you liked it!
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April 24, 2018 at 1:42 pm
Wait…there’s something ~else~?
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April 24, 2018 at 6:15 pm
Lool!
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April 24, 2018 at 2:17 pm
Good advice. I think it the problem for so many, they haven’t found their authentic purpose. Your are right, keep looking.
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April 24, 2018 at 6:13 pm
Definitely!
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April 24, 2018 at 4:37 pm
Excellent advice!
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April 24, 2018 at 6:12 pm
Thank you😊
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April 24, 2018 at 6:02 pm
Indeed. Do something else! This made me smile hugeky.
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April 24, 2018 at 6:12 pm
Thanks Toni! 😊
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April 24, 2018 at 6:03 pm
Hugely….
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April 24, 2018 at 8:32 pm
I believe that I am in love with this. I believe that we don’t find ourselves until we get lost in the possessive arms of that which drives us. I believe that your ending advice is wise and lifesaving, too. Also, this is freaking yummy.
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April 24, 2018 at 10:15 pm
Spoken by one who appears to have found hers…? Getting lost in it- is what it has to be. Thanks Magaly😊
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April 25, 2018 at 12:05 am
So utterly true Vivian! I love it!
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April 25, 2018 at 6:24 pm
Thanks Carrie!
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April 25, 2018 at 5:38 am
If it doesn’t burn, doesn’t insist, doesn’t bring joy…then don’t do it. What a wonderful ode to passion!
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April 25, 2018 at 6:23 pm
I’m certain you know the feeling, Susie😉 Thank you!
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April 25, 2018 at 7:52 am
😲! Wow! This is deep. Love the dragon part the most.
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April 25, 2018 at 1:35 pm
Thank you 🙂
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April 26, 2018 at 7:39 am
This poem has a great shape and a great message, Viv! I like the repetition, drumming through the poem like a heartbeat. Each stanza is familiar to poets: the whispering in dreams, staying up until all hours writing (or, in my case, getting up before the sun!) and that madness! My favourite simile is:
‘If it doesn’t carry you through the air
as if riding a fire-breathing dragon
it’s not your passion’.
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April 26, 2018 at 2:24 pm
Thanks Kim! Passion can be written about in several book volumes. I felt I’d only given a summary. Your comments are priceless and……Thank you!
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June 28, 2018 at 6:16 am
Preach, if we are not passionate than what are we ? Content?
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June 28, 2018 at 10:30 am
Thank you 😊
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April 25, 2018 at 1:35 pm
🙂 🙂
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