poem-a-day challenge: dream breakdown

Once we get through today’s poem, we’ll be half of the way through this challenge. Cue the Bon Jovi. And let’s jump in to this prompt.

For today’s prompt, write a dream poem. The poem can be a remembered dream. Or it could be a dream about the future (like getting out and about without worry again). Of course, some dreams are good, but there are nightmares too. So let’s get dreamy with our poems today. After all, Blondie said it best: “Dreaming is free.” — Robert Lee Brewer, Writer’s Digest

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Your vast imagination
— which conceived fantastical worlds
and elaborate play scenarios
practically from infancy

and resulted in the creation of
innumerable board games
live action playground games
computer and video games*,
worlds in Minecraft
YouTube videos
musical projects,
more ideas than you had time to bring to fruition —

ultimately failed you
when you could not dream of a world
in which your life would have meaning
and bring joy, not suffering.

Just once, you were terribly wrong.

catch and release

Time for our third Two for Tuesday of the month! Pick one prompt or use both … your choice!

1. Write a catch poem. Catch a cold, a ball, a fish, or someone’s eye.

2. Write a release poem. Release your anger, a ball, a fish, or someone’s head (from a head lock while wrestling, of course).

Remember: These are just matches meant to spark your creativity; you can catch and release your fire wherever you wish. —Robert Lee Brewer, Writer’s Digest

Catch and release

Sometimes I catch myself
imagining
the parallel universe
in which Rader right now

hurtles toward high school graduation
six weeks away,
and the life that waits for him
after leaving home

in which we release him
into the wild
and he figures out how to fly

finds his place at college
enjoys his classes and friends
prepares for work, life, love.

He comes home to visit;

he’s just been away.

Just away for a while.