The Creativity Well

When the Dream Seems Real

April 04, 2023 — Poem a Day: Two-for-Tuesday [dream, real, or both]

Through Twilight’s Veil to Dawn’s First Blush

Gleaming slivers of Roman silver slice passage tween Onyx’s arms of velvet warmth. Promises made of love’s sweet paradise are oft in ignorance made thenceforth.

Jealousy comes in many shapes and forms wreaking havoc upon earth and heaven. it takes brave souls to weather these type storms least the love object proves love obsession.

Shadows leap, dance, and sway upon the ground demonstrating merriment is at stake. Fairies flitter, float, and flutter abound while the centaurs’ hooves make the earthquake.

Though these words doth ring true and of Morpheus, ’tis folly to think any impervious.

The Challenge

April 1, 2023, started the 16th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge on Writer’s Digest and ran until May 1, 2023. Each day during April, Robert Lee Brewer posted a poetic form, explanation, and his attempt on the Writer’s Digest website.

My Process

Woke up to the annoying internal alarm clock left over from my teaching days, I roll hopped out of bed, wheeled to my so-called workstation, and I logged on to the Net. I went to the site, turned the page into a PDF, downloaded, saved, and logged out. Took a moment to open the prompt and read. Then re-read.

Each poem has a different gestation period.

After some growth and stretching, the labor pains came — giving birth to a brand-new creation: a first draft. A work freshly born. Not edited. No perfect word choice. Raw from the creativity well.

I invite and encourage you to engage with the words.

What strikes a chord in your soul? What might make a great spin-off poem topic?

Until next time, Bonnie L. Boucek