tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post5531225818195663333..comments2023-12-06T00:48:23.734-08:00Comments on Daily Writing Practice: Wednesday December 9th, 2009Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-84479932678666954842014-02-06T11:16:27.381-08:002014-02-06T11:16:27.381-08:00Shea - I'm glad you found another prompt to wr...Shea - I'm glad you found another prompt to write on!<br /><br />This is really excellent. Some really great lines here; I particularly liked '... but I can never tap back into my dreams' and 'we take our waking slow and we never go back'.<br /><br />Lindsey - thanks for taking the time to find and write on another prompt!<br /><br />Oh my goodness, your second stanza. I laughed out loud at your descriptions :DMarchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-51553207509049976372014-02-05T08:33:29.355-08:002014-02-05T08:33:29.355-08:00Noisy as we dream
The alarm screams and shouts yel...Noisy as we dream<br />The alarm screams and shouts yelling,<br />"Wake up! Wake up!"<br /><br />With messy hair and a puddle of drool<br />we roll over and slap it silly<br />not ready to start the day<br />we snooze for 5 minutes more<br /><br />Until it all begins again...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03230434263578468012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-43685337285353558362014-02-05T08:31:17.821-08:002014-02-05T08:31:17.821-08:00Always I am somewhere else.
I am meeting Neil Gaim...Always I am somewhere else.<br />I am meeting Neil Gaiman <br />or it's Saturday<br />or I'm being really cool for once,<br />then BAM!<br />The beeping, low at first, <br />then insistent<br />then urgent.<br />I tap to snooze but I can never tap back into my dream.<br /><br />"We were at Cheddar's," my child says, <br />confused,<br />waking from a dream.<br />"We were talking..."<br />He trails off.<br />he begins to learn <br />we take our waking slow<br />and we never go back.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14490351009132890383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-22446162906843975402009-12-10T18:28:45.129-08:002009-12-10T18:28:45.129-08:00Greg - ahem. Maybe.
Let's just say your poem ...Greg - ahem. Maybe.<br /><br />Let's just say your poem resonates with something deep inside me.<br /><br />Morganna - haha, that's a cute little poem. I like it a lot :)Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-11180559792774087612009-12-10T09:44:33.656-08:002009-12-10T09:44:33.656-08:00It's five forty
I'm playing so softly
Can ...It's five forty<br />I'm playing so softly<br />Can you reach me<br />Before I wake the kids?morgannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04295309367485408358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-18594849916917657482009-12-10T02:11:48.842-08:002009-12-10T02:11:48.842-08:00Are you having trouble getting back into a getting...Are you having trouble getting back into a getting-up routine now that you're back at work? :)<br /><br />I really like the change of pace between the verses and the refrain, I think it works really well.<br /><br />Alarm clocks<br /><br />I wake, shivering, in the dark,<br />Fear caresses me with itching fingers.<br />Something dreadful will soon occur,<br />I hide my head, but fear lingers.<br />And then the klaxon bleats and blares,<br />My body tenses, hard as rock,<br />My orders are to leave the comfort of my bed,<br />Issued by that infernal clock.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08503319830584828982noreply@blogger.com