Picture a woman sleeping, words wrapped close around as sheets.
Syllables slipping to the floor, loosed from their midnight feats.
A whole new world evolving as she’s lost away in dream.
All those single actions spilling from the seam
of those reveries she’s wrapped in, meaning more than what they mean.
Click
Picture eyelids opening as light begins to dawn.
See the eyelids close again, her stretching and her yawn.
See the dreams she’s had all night pulled to consciousness–
all tightly wrapped, but wriggling themselves free from all the mess
of what they’ve been bound up in to become what she’ll confess.
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See the words all rising from the place where they’ve been sleeping.
See her brow remembering bits it struggles now at keeping.
See her form a paper sheet into a little sack
and use her pen to prod the words back into a pack,
sparring with belligerent phrases that fight back.
Click
See her herding each into its place with little nudges,
overlooking warring words that seek to live their grudges,
making words that don’t belong together somehow fit,
forcing the recalcitrant to want to do their bit
to turn their separate strands into a story finely knit.
Click
Now see the picture on the page where words have come to rest–
stretched out vowel to consonant, best standing next to best.
Brutal words relaxing, flaccid words now showing zest.
Brought recently into the world where they have met the test,
here they stand before you, shaken out and neatly pressed.
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Then see the floor around the bed–the words she’s thrown away.
The words that somehow just don’t say what she wants to convey.
See them rising in the air to hover up above.
Words of anger, sadness, envy, honor, lust and love.
They jump, they float, they kiss, they spar, they hug, they joust, they shove.
Click
Tomorrow night they’ll rain back down to form adventures new.
To form themselves into the curious plots that dream parts do.
Picture them assembling into order all their own
or forming groups informally, wherever they are blown.
Ready on the morrow to once more go where they’re sown.
Click.
The Prompt: Three Perfect Shots–Take a subject you’re familiar with and imagine it as three photos in a sequence. Tackle the subject by describing those three shots. (As usual, I’ve been excessive and done seven shots instead of three.)
P.S. Yes, that’s my new Mac Air in the picture. It just arrived with friends from the States last night. I’ve been putting my coffee or Coke on the floor or a different table and hope you do the same. Better to learn from my mistakes than your own. It feels like I’m finally speaking my native language again after trying to negotiate the web in a language I’ve never spoken before for two months. Ahhhhhhhh. Relief. But, I now like my Acer PC as well. Just still more of a struggle and I was able to transfer all but the last 10 days of what was on my old Mac onto my new Mac, thanks to my dedicated backup drive. Too bad I hadn’t backed up for 10 days, but this is much better than nothing.
Bravo! I just love this one!
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Beautiful, poignant, and yay!
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Hah! You are my cheerleader of poetry!
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Wow. That’s a doozy. I loved it.
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Thanks, Susan.
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Very creative post! I’m stuck on this one, what to write?
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What a great take on this prompt. I love it!
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Thanks, Lois.
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‘brutal words relaxing, flaccid words now showing zest,’ was my favorite line until i read, ‘tomorrow night they’ll rain down…dream parts do.’ those two lines are quite picturesque, lovely too. glad i read this today. i’m a little stuck, story wise, and needed a little motivation to keep clicking away at keys.
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Thanks, Macgyver. I needed some kind words today!
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So glad you did…I’ll go to Reader now to see your results. I always enjoy your posts.
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alas it’s not posted yet. it’s more of a work in progress that’s further along now than it was before i read you 🙂
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