“My battery is low and it’s getting dark.” Mars rover Opportunity
I slept deeply under the strawberry moon
had dreams of your fear of traffic
you would not cross the highway
even though the signs were clear
you were lying on the sidewalk
unable to get up and move
while I was at the other side
waiting and calling
I had to go on
alone
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dVerse prompt using a quote from a list. I loved the quote from the Mars rover.
Into the night bat troops fly
Most of the time against a dark sky
Into the night two cougars prowl
Most of the time they scream and growl
Into the night an owl hoots
Most of the time knowing its attributes
Into the night the sirens call
Most of the time to someone’s downfall
Into the night a dinosaur roams
Most of the time looking for homes
Into the night the children sleep
Most of the time not hearing a peep
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NaPoWriMo prompt to double down in the fashion of this nursery rhyme—“There was a man of double deed”.
Woke to silver crystals on the ground
grass crinkles under my shoes
I slept under a heavy weight
with the dog on my bed
last night a beaver moon with an eclipse
did not keep us awake
we slept hard
trusting
only to abide
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dVerse prompt to use the word abide. Yes, the dude abides.
Last night there were knocks
on a door which woke me up
wondering if this
was deliberate knocking on my door
maybe from the homeless people
in the woods next door or someone else
who needed me in the middle
of the night and without pajamas
I left the bed to have a look
& then remembered I was naked
with a fear that someone
could have been looking in at me
standing there oblivious to the fact
that death’s knock had come
to the neighbor in the house
west of me as I went back to sleep
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dVerse prompt on a one sentence poem containing perhaps an embarrassing experience and incorporating the end of civilization
Last night I wore the mask of sleep
I wore it well with eyes closed
Mouth slightly agape
It was quiet
Frozen shut from the world
Peaceful
Until shattered by a roar
Of the snore
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dVerse prompt on the mask
Eyes closed shut the mind
No more thought
Turn it off
Not with prescriptions
or chamomile tea
Rather meditate and pray
Forget your day
Mistakes you made
or what was said
Let it go
Into beloved
Sleep
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dVerse prompt on sleep
Today is the birthday of my first born. Her dad drew this picture of her sleeping. She could sleep when sounds were loud or still. Would sleep through the night and such a good baby. She would sleep in the big bed with her dad and I or sleep in her own bed and seldom cried. When she was tired she would sleep and sleep like a baby.
When she was tired she would sleep and sleep like a baby. She would sleep in the big bed with her dad and I or sleep in her own bed and seldom cried. Would sleep through the night and such a good baby. She could sleep when sounds were loud or still. Her dad drew this picture of her sleeping. Today is the birthday of my first born.
last NaPoWriMo prompt to run a poem forward and then backward
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