The Department of Structured Calm



Episode 1: Sleep Story: English Garden

Original story by Anureet

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A soothing walk through an English Garden. Fictitious, as I’m not a gardener, so the plants I feature grow all year round :-).


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Episode 2: A Dream Within a Dream

A reading of A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

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Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow —

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand —

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep — while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?


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Episode 3: Poetry ASMR Color, Christina Rossetti

A reading of Color, Christina Rossetti

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What is pink? a rose is pink

By a fountain’s brink.

What is red? a poppy’s red

In its barley bed.

What is blue? the sky is blue

Where the clouds float thro’.

What is white? a swan is white

Sailing in the light.

What is yellow? pears are yellow,

Rich and ripe and mellow.

What is green? the grass is green,

With small flowers between.

What is violet? clouds are violet

In the summer twilight.

What is orange? Why, an orange,

Just an orange!


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Episode 4: Melancholy Wrapped in a Candy Wrapper

Original Poem by Anureet

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the charcoal slate blue resting state of a melancholic existence

that is absolutely fine

because there is a spectrum we all exist within

but it is a narrative not often told

as

they

just

want

you

to have a Pollyanna-esque

existence existing

in a pink & sparkly glow

but you don’t want that

& you are not that,

so you try not to be like that

so you embrace who you are

just as you are & the glow is energy that is appealing & you stay for the comfort


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Episode 5: Sugary ASMR Poem

Original Poem by Anureet

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Drifting into a melodious marshmallow-like lightness in a sugary sweet cherry dream-like lullaby. Caramel clouds of calming calm like a cappuccino of fluffy cream coolness. Vanilla bakery sugary scents sinking like molasses into a dreamy dreamlike state. Lemony sugar drizzle sharp then soft and soothing wrapping like a blanket of biscuits.


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