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A Child’s Dream – #dark #poetry – #Senryu – #poetrychallenge

10 Wednesday Jul 2019

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This week’s words for Colleen’s fabulous poetry challenge are Pretty and Ugly.  Remember, synonyms only!!  Check out Colleen’s blog to find which forms of poetry are acceptable for this challenge.  Have fun!

Written as a Senryu, my synonyms are Angelic and Hideous.


Hideous faces

In the darkness of the night

Taint angelic dreams

 

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 135: Pretty & Ugly

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Time for Fantasy ~ #Tanka – #poetry – #poetrychallenge

03 Wednesday Jul 2019

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Colleen’s fabulous poetry challenge for this week are Poet’s Choice!  That’s right, it’s the first challenge of the month, and we get to pick!  Check out Colleen’s blog to find which forms of poetry are acceptable for this challenge.  Have fun!

My poem is written as a Tanka.


When eyes tightly close

Tis the time for fantasy

Invading my dreams

Like a caramel sundae

Sugary sweetness oozing

 

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 134 Poet’s Choice

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I’m Not Tired -#poetry #insomnia

18 Saturday May 2019

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I really should be fast asleep

It’s funny, I’m not tired

The night has taken over me

The light of day, expired

 

There’s a spider crawling up my wall
He doesn’t notice me at all

Perhaps he’s uninspired
By the fact that I’m not tired

 

My brain is running on caffeine
It really should be in a dream

Is that truly what I desire?
Cause I’m really not that tired

 

I close my eyes and try to rest

Still, visions dance before me

Why do I even bother?

Now where’s that cup of coffee?

 

Sweet liquid gold is most required
Oh, did I mention I’m not tired?

 

 

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Seal My Fate ~ #poetry – #NaPoWriMo

08 Monday Apr 2019

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Sleep, is a nightmare, come to rest

These hands upon my body, pressed

Have they come to haunt my being?

Or is this an illusion, I am seeing?

Still I sleep, and do not awake

But I can feel my body quake

And tremble, like the ground that shifts

Yet, no words are falling, from my lips

I continue, to lie here, to contemplate

Knowing, these nightmares, seal my fate

 

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Sweet Dreams, Child ~ #NaPoWriMo #poetry

01 Monday Apr 2019

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Sweet dreams, child, as you snuggle close

Let the moon above, guide your visions

Forget about the day, gone by now

There’s no need to make any decisions

Drift away, and find a fantasy, created

Just for you, in your own hidden place

Get lost among the twinkling stars

Watch the midnight sun, in outer space

Sweet dreams, my child, for now you rest

Serenely sleep, as the night slips by

Cocooned next to me, against my chest

As I drift off, too, all is right, by and by

 

 

 

 

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