Reality

some days
I wake up
forgetting
I fell asleep
wiping blurred
dreams from
my eyes
reality looks
nothing like
I imagined

 

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free-verse, c.b.w. 2018

Serious & Silly

I. seriously soothing

wind chimes pull
me back and forth
cool evening wind

II. sleeping silly

grandma’s favorite
dream let her fly
like superman
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Image: Windblown Grass Across the Moon – Hiroshige, WikiArt.org

Words: senryu, c.b.w. 2016

Part of the 2016 April Poem A Day Challenge (via Poetic Asides on Writer’s Digest) for the April 12 prompt: serious/silly.

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