Friday Flash 55 for G-Man.
Beware the vicious monsters of the darkest night. They crawl from the deep recesses of your mind and gnaw away at you while you’re asleep. Fear and insecurity join together with doubt and jealousy. They attack your dreams leaving reality and dull mediocrity in their wake. Only courage and hope can slay these vile monsters.
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Teresa, the photo was actually a bit whimsical, but the poem? Utterly true. Beware, indeed. There are dreams I have where I am stuck in a bad place. I wake up, visit the bathroom, fall asleep, and I’m back there again… all sorts of monsters, but there is always the remembering of actual time and place upon waking, and that is often when I write my best = just out of a nightmare. Cracking good poem! Peace, Amy
http://sharplittlepencil.com/2013/01/16/armed/
I didn’t have time to take a picture of a real monster.
PS Thank you for having a robot-checker-free blog! I get sick of squinting at the screen, trying to decipher the crooked words and blurry numbers. Thanks.
Teresa…?
My God woman, you should do this writing thing FULL TIME!
You have no idea how proud I am to have you choose The Friday Funfest to showcase just a smidgin of the torrent of talent that you have bottled up in that fantastic mind of yours.
Loved your nightmarish 55 My Friend
Thanks for playing, and have a Kick Ass Week-End
You are too kind. I’d love to write and farm full time, but the teaching gig pays a bit better.
That and getting out of what ever real life situation is causing the nightmares.
Nice, to slay those monsters. Enjoyed reading this.
Fear is very debilitating and that monster hides under my bed which is why I can’t sleep at night.
Flash 55 – come on, i’m worth it
I used to have nightmares every night until I went on Paxil. Now I just have night terrors. I wake the whole house up screaming at the top of my lungs. But when I wake up, I usually don’t remember too much of what I was dreaming about and I am not afraid and just fall right back to sleep. Scares the shit out of everyone else, but I guess they are getting used to it.
You’re spot on – those are the hardest monsters of all to combat!
so true!
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It’s true! And in the morning it seems so different and I wonder what in the world was that all about!
Yep, all the real monsters aren’t under the bed, but in it with you when you lay down and close your eyes. Great 55, Teresa.