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Only For A Moment

Posted by Raivenne on March 11, 2018
Posted in: Just Me, Being Me, March 2018, Slice of Life - Two Writing Teachers, The Funny SIde, The Present. Tagged: , , , , , . 7 Comments

I get an idea for a story I’m working on as I come in after one in the morning from hanging out with friends. I’m sleepy, but I want to get the idea down while the muse is hot. I hangup my outerwear and head for the computer.

I am happily typing away, occasionally closing my eyes as I try to visualize a scene while writing it down. You know –If she lifts her head up, when and why did she put her head down? – His hand is on the door, handle or knob?–  things like that. I get a bit done, but I am sleepy. I convince myself to flesh out this one scene before I head for bead.

I close my eyes only for a moment to visualize the scene. When I open my eyes an hour had passed on my computer. Crap, I fell asleep, I’m clearly sleepier than I thought- fine off to bed I go.

I am in bed when I see my clock radio. It is relic from the 90s. Long before people started using their cell phones, before such things got all digitized fancy. I have to set it manually, but still works so I keep it. I look at the time wondering why it’s an hour off, then realized I hadn’t fallen asleep for an hour…

…Daylight savings had clicked in.

D’oh!

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Today is Day 11 of the March Slice Of Life Story Challenge.
Come see how others are slicing it up today.
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Not Exactly What I Meant

Posted by Raivenne on March 8, 2018
Posted in: Just Me, Being Me, March 2018, Slice of Life - Two Writing Teachers, The Present. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 2 Comments

When I told someone I need to chill this is not exactly what I meant…

tulip buds in snow
…Though it is very representative of my mood right now.

Frosted over, but trying to push through the madness. I seriously chose the wrong year to give up coffee for Lent.

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Today is Day 8 of the March Slice Of Life Story Challenge.
Let’s how other are slicing and hopefully doing a better job of chilling out today…

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It Catches Up…

Posted by Raivenne on March 7, 2018
Posted in: Just Me, Being Me, March 2018, Slice of Life - Two Writing Teachers, The Present. Tagged: , , , , , , . 5 Comments

Mr. Sandman has chased Ms. Insomnia around the mulberry bush for three days.  I may have slept a total of ten hours twixt these three days.

Maybe it’s all the snow that has fallen on my fair city these past few hours, I don’t know. When Insomnia stopped to take a gander at the pristine snowy city streets Sandman finally caught up to the elusive chick. They are battling still, but I feel she’s losing this round – rapidly and I couldn’t be happier.

My head feels like the marionette string has been cut, I can barely keep my head up. The result being one yawn filled slice before the hay hits me <— not a typo.

G’nite y’all.

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Today is Day 7 of the March Slice Of Life Story Challenge.

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Sleepless

Posted by Raivenne on April 3, 2016
Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, OpenLinkNight, Poetry. Tagged: , , , , . 8 Comments

With twirling thoughts inside my head
In knowing each step I took was right
I lay here gazing at walls instead
There is no sleep for me tonight

This first night without you here
Coldness where warmth beside me lay
I find myself in anguished mood
With twirling thoughts inside my head

In this desolation of my thoughts
I mourn the path that brought me here
To blame is futile and pleas unheard
In knowing each step I took was right

The bright moon scoffs at my attempts
And shines its light on the truth of it
Watching its path travel this room
I lay here gazing at walls instead

Somnolence will not be found here
In midst this turmoil of my soul
Dawn will find me as dusk left me
There is no sleep for me tonight

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Today I Cascade.

In a Cascade a poet creates the initial stanza then takes each consecutive line from that first stanza and makes those the final lines of each stanza afterward. If the first stanza is sextet, then the complete poem will have seven stanzas of sextets. A tercet results in four stanzas of tercets and so on. Beyond that, there are no additional rules for rhyming, meter, etc.

 

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dVerse Poets Pub | Open Link Night #183

Release

Posted by Raivenne on February 24, 2012
Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, FormForAll, Poetry, Soul. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , . 21 Comments

 
 
 
 
 
 
Given sweet release, on a sultry night
There swells a nightingale’s song, I close my eyes and breathe deep
In the endless dark, heeding ganja’s call
Sleep is just a memory, in the aromatic haze
Haunted music piercing soul, all coherent thinking lost

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Hyde Park Poet Rally: Week 62

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dVerse Poet Pub FormForAll | Writing Visual

The dVerse Poet Pub FormForAll challenge for this week was to write a visual poem using the Tanka form.  The Tanka, an Asian poetic form, very similar to haiku, is a single stanza, 5 line, non-rhyming poem, with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable count pattern per stanza.

Me, being me, having done the Tanka form several times in the past, decided to kick it up a notch and enter the challenge with a SuperTanka form instead.  The Super-Tanka is two Tanka poems written side-by-side where each can stand alone on its on merit, but when combined create a complete poem together. The greater the subject difference of the individual Tankas from each other, compared to the whole, the better.