7.38 am September 7th
Shall I wake to find
my dream was a dream
of a dream?
7.38 am alarm
You caught me in the middle of a poem
or a dream?
the prompt, a quote from Edgar Allen Poe;
'Life is but a dream within a dream'.
I've stopped that write to concentrate on you
a poem within a poem.
The early morning news
delivers global misery
a news boy (dream boy) eases more,
dog snapping his fingers,
through the letterbox.
Toast popping
coffee on the boil
Hurricane Ike
floods, devastation ...
Arthur my hungry cat awaits
a dish of food, a cosy bed,
and lives his dream
of ruler of the house.
The day (dream) awaits.
I'd best get on because
I'm living not the dream
I'd choose to live,
In fact I think I may be
someone else's dream.
A minor player they will
struggle to recall
when they awake.
But, dream or not
I'll feed the cat,
and wonder what to do
about the misery
this day's reality
has wrought.
A contest entry
- stop, drop and WRITE! (Contest) by luvdrkchocolate.
450 points, ended September 17, 2008, 11 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Comments
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lol Seems everybody that choose the 7:38 AM time was just waking up and it makes me laugh because I can just see you guys in your pj's, groping for the coffee machine or maybe your glasses. In this case, it sounds like your head was full of sleep and you were busy trying to wake up and make sense of the world again. I thought you did a good job of expressing yourself here.
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