Dreams Those Nasty Creatures

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Open Poetry #46

Dreams Those Nasty Creatures

GBride
Senior Member

since 2009-07-02

Posts 538

0 posted 2010-01-28 08:23 PM

Dreams, the nasty creatures
So, after a long and weary day,
we go to bed, time to hit the hay.
We leave the known world behind,
to enter worlds of another kind.
And there such wild places we find.
Sometimes filled with monsters from fairy tale,
what handsome princes, and maidens pale.
Places where there is a villain dark.
We shoot an arrow at him, it finds it’s mark.
Those beguiling dreams they sneak up in the night.
Even when your  windows are shut tight.
With stealth they creep into our bed.
Then they slither into our head.
Don’t they have any respect.
They need their ambitions checked
Then they take us for a feverish ride.
Such happiness, such fear,  I cannot abide.
Such fantasies our brains dream up.
To  make us fly away in this cruel cup.
Only to awake after the whole night long,
by birds singing their morning song.
“Arise, awake, dear dreamers, get out of bed.
There are family member s who must be fed.”
So we proceed to another dreary day.
If only we could return to dreams and stay.

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1 posted 2010-01-28 09:08 PM

Yo GBride,

Take delight in all of your dreams, even the bad ones.

Bobby

Earl Brinkman
Senior Member

since 2010-03-03

Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan

2 posted 2010-03-09 10:43 PM

While I found this quite clever and I know that a lot of effort had gone into it, I don`t think the word `nasty` is appropriate in one of the opening lines. Still you have captured the beauty and mystery of dreams wonderfully!

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