From early in 2016: one of my favorite rhyming poems…
Every night I drift to sleep
As darkness makes me blind
And yet my vision attenuates
With my sharply focused mind
I travel over a thousand miles
To a hostile, forbidding land
The witching hours drag so slowly
Moon lights the evil plan
The hungry mouths, the feral eyes
So dreadful is their gaze
Circle round with deadly purpose
Muscles tighten and I brace
They are confident that I am caught
But I’ve yet to meet my end
With guile and cunning, I make my move
On this my life depends
When I have dodged and feinted
I smell their fetid breath
As I flee into the forest
I escape those jaws of death
It’s only upon awakening
Chilled, yet dripping wet
That I realize the nightmare beasts
Haven’t killed me yet
Meg Sorick, Author/Artist 
Love it. Live to fight another day! 😃💪🏻
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Right on! Thanks! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
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You’re welcome, Doc! Hadn’t seen this one. Guess hadn’t started following you at that point. I may have to do some back-reading. 😃
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I recycle some older posts once in a while – helps give me a writing break!
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Well deserved. 😊
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Wow! So vividly describes a nightmare! Awesome, Meg.
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Thank you, Kay! Wolves and coyotes are frequent visitors and I have no idea why… Calling Dr. Freud!
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Interesting!
http://www.auntyflo.com/dream-dictionary/wolf
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Oh my word! I am going with the ‘friends as my wolf pack’ interpretation. Despite this poem, the wolves and coyotes never bother me in my dreams, they’re always onto something else. And actually I’m always the observer in those dreams, not interacting with the pack at all. Huh… Wonder if that means I’m a lone wolf!
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I find dreams fascinating! Ahhh….maybe so. That’s not a bad thing! Or maybe you feel like one sometimes. (I do).
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I know what you mean. 😮
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This is stunning!
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Thank you, Rob!
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My goodness! This is wonderful
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Thanks, Rita!
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Fantastic! You said it was one of your favorite rhyming poems. Is there any other kind?
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You’re lucky I’m not a ‘real’ poet Phil, you could be in for a lecture! 😂
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I know. I was just teasing,hoping to provoke a response
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Hear, hear Phil!
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This really captures the feel of a nightmare for me, though oddly I don’t seem to dream much at all lately.
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I seem to have periods of time when I dream a lot and then others when I don’t. And it’s completely random. Or so it seems! Thanks, Dee!
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Maybe I’ll have nightmares when my hair starts growing back 🙂
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Oh my! I hope not!
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Dark – love it!
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Thanks, Nathalie!
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Very moody and atmospheric. Have you ever considered writing any horror?
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I’ve written murder, death and mayhem before, not true horror though. But thank you so much!
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Love the opening picture: a real dream landscape to frame the dream sequence. Checked my own dream animals against the dream dictionary: yuck, didn’t match at all. I think I need a night-mère dictionary!
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I guess the wolves are not uncommon in dreams. Mine don’t chase me, they are onto something else. I think I told you before, that I’m mostly an observer within my dreams, not a participant. The dream rolls by like a film.
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That is the sort of dream sequence you can write from. The sense of observation is strong in your writing. As only children, we spent a long childhood sitting and watching, reading the moods, and learning when to run!
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I agree with you! We would probably be excellent detectives!
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Ooh! Awesome!
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Thank you!
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That’s frighteningly good. A horror story in the making.
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Thanks, Jacqueline!
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Excellent, I like the yet.
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Thank you, a recurring dream has the potential for a different ending
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That’s an idea for a story
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Hmmm. A recurring dream. A different ending each time. Then the events of the dream begin to play out in reality. Which ending will it be? Or one that has yet to present itself… I will jot that into the notebook for future development
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Absolutely, this could be a real head spinner
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I like it
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Spinning around and around.
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I miss you, Cake. You must be still terribly busy
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Busy enough but my routine is shot and I am finding it hard to get back into the groove.
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We should do a beautiful corpse (or whatever the hell that was called)
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Exquisite corpse.Yes we should. I am working on my new post, time for Tempting Fate is very short, hopefully I will get back into the groove next week.
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There you go… You’re writing. Let me know if and when you want to try.
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Soon I promise
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Excellent.
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