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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana 
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It’s raining it’s nighttime and it is raining yesterday’s giving sun is being nurtured by the life-giving rain I sit here book in hand I close it and lay it down now it is gone like the daytime closed by night books I live for them I write them I love them to say the least novels . . . thrillers written to make you forget your troubles at each page turned novelists fabricate people, places, things sometimes like tonight the rain coming down gives a beleaguered writer a chance to pen its cadence then insert it in the story as simple as that the rain turns into a puddle the puddle into a stream the rain never stops and therefore becomes a flood the sweet young heroine is trapped cannot drive to safety she is doomed until . . . the novelist yawns stops writing goes to bed leaving his heroine in abject terror maybe, just maybe he will have a revealing dream and tomorrow he will be able to save the frantic damsel his dreams sometimes does that for him unless they turn into nightmares even so there are ideas in nightmares if we but take the time to look ©January 17, 2015 / Jerry Pat Bolton |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Excellent piece, dear Jerry. Insightful too. A writer no doubt knows how fruitful a night can be, a dream, and as you say even a nightmare ... Our subconscious mind is such a great collaborator I would say. And the rain too! Margherita  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thanks Margherita, you have made me feel worthy almost of your words. ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
i love books too, and the rain makes them more precious, the atmosphere of the poem is balanced between serenity and questionnings, it is very poetical, thanks for the fine penning yann |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
You are absolutely right, JP about dreams (nightmarish or otherwise) ... I've actually 'dreamed' some of my poetry before actually 'penning' it ... (which leaves one with a REALLY strange feeling sometimes) |
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Marilyn Member Elite
since 1999-09-26
Posts 2621Ontario, Canada |
I have the misfortune (or fortune depending on your perspective)of never remembering my dreams. Though I will admit that I have been awakened in the middle of the night by poetry that demanded to be penned. I am sure those pieces were created in my dreams. When you are old and grey and full of sleep, |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thanks Yann, Bruce and Marilyn, I appreciate your thought ., . . ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
Blessed is the cloud that brings the rain that pens the poem on a sleepless night to some merely clouds, to the poet pure love |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Yeah you're right Emma. I know I see things within my realm that might shock, even frighten some . . . ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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