FREE VERSE POETRY IN 100-WORDS
Four-Syllable Sleeplessness
A friend challenged me to write a free verse poem with 20 four-syllable words using my usual 100-words. Robert Frost once said writing free verse was like “playing tennis without a net.” Challenge accepted!
The somnambular soliloquies sing in an analytic vernacular that interrupts my sleep.
What are these contradicting copulations that rumble across my brain, causing these after-midnight phenomena of sleeplessness?
Undoubtedly, there is a reason why I can’t have last song syndrome, like so many others.
What I wouldn’t do for a little Californication or some other nonsensical song instead of these soliloquies of four-syllable philosophies. At least that song’s a six-pack of syllables.
Is there some sort of bureaucratic dictionary driving this degenerate directory of four-syllable similitudes through my unconsciousness causing me this disposition?
The life of a writer, perhaps?
My 100-Word Micro-Fictions
Stephen Dalton is a retired US Army First Sergeant with a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a Certified US English Chicago Manual of Style Editor. He is a freelance journalist currently living in the Philippines.
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