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Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night with a flash of dream-brilliance and scratch something on a scrap of paper in the dark?
               
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I do this occasionally, but in the cold reality of morning, I usually find … giBberiSh.

Here is one from a long time ago, that sounded oh, so poetic in the middle of the night:

              Thrice before the double dawn,
              the monkey … [indecipherable] gone.

             
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Then there was this:

              Toggle
              Dazzle
              Ice Cream
              Soldier

             
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My scribble from last Tuesday was marginally coherent, yet not the masterpiece imagined in my dream-brain:

              My poor, miser-man,
              you keep all you can –
              bibbles and bobbles
              you put in a can.

Not sure how you put a bobble in a can, and "can" can't rhyme with "can."  Maybe that one could be improved with a little TLC…

              You scrimp, and you cobble,
              devout miser-man,
              each bibble, each bauble – 
              tucked in a can.

             
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Ah well, despite the futility, I continue to jot down pieces of dreams. Because …

 

Dreams

by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams 
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
… read the entire poem here.

Wishing you a happy Poetry Friday and sweet dreams!  Please visit Janice at Salt City Verse to read about her impatience for impatiens and a review of Carol Labuzzetta's Picture Perfect Poetry.

37 comments

  • Yes to gibberish in the morning! But every once in a great while...a true spark or bit of captured magic. Love this!
  • HA!  Thanks so much for sharing these, Tracey.  Yep.  I used to do just pen and paper with a wee light, but, like Irene, now I'm more prone to use the NOTES on my phone and, like Irene, sometimes I scratch my head at the auto-correct when I actually read it, OR, like Karen, I email ideas to myself in fits of wee-hours inspiration, but I'm always a little concerned that I'm sending it to someone else in my groggy state....  I enjoyed your wiser miser. 
    • Yes, I email myself sometimes too. Part of the issue is that I often don't both to put on my glasses, so now that you mention it ... who knows who I might have emailed!! Haha!
  • I very much appreciate when fellow writers/poets share their processes. What you describe here, Tracey is so familiar. I too have written poems concerning what all too frequently happens when my head hits the pillow. Tomorrow's words arrive prematurely, to tease me with their potential. Thank goodness for writer's notebooks! Your writing here is so insightful. 
  • Am I the only one who sleeps blissfully through any attempts by my subconscious to give me ideas for poems?!?
  • Thanks for sharing all your nighttime sparks and inspirations. There's definitely something intriguing about those bibbles and bobbles! Having some issues with insomnia, I try not to wake up enough to jot something down, but then I mourn its loss in the morning. 
  • I love this! I can relate. I even bought pens that light up at the tip so I can write those not-so-brilliant thoughts down in the middle of the night. :) 
  • Tracey, I often have dreams and wish that I could remember them to write about. At least you scribble thoughts down. Your last poem is a great start. I guess I should write down my thoughts. Thanks for sharing what your mind thought.
    • Carol, I usually can't remember my dreams in the morning either. Oddly, as I start to fall asleep the next night they come back to me, as if the story is continuing!
  • Tracey, I think your bits of baubles are small treasures waiting for some daylight…
    I can definitely relate to the gibberish that we may scribble away at night, and capturing the full dream is often the challenge for me, thanks!

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