Strangely, I have never been able to keep a writers' dream diary yet so many poets have them form the basis of their poems. They are such a rich resource.
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Enjoy "thunder in the middle"!
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I normally prefer nightmares to dreams, but again they hardly make it to paper except for this one:
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counting down
to those waking dreams
my skill at handguns
Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
c.2.2. Anthology of short-verse ed. Brendan Slater & Alan Summers
(Yet To Be Named Free Press 2013)
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And the only diary haiku I wrote was this one:
winter sun-
leaving the farm one last time
old diary finished
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Blithe Spirit vol. 5 no. 2 (1995); sundog haiku journal: an australian year, sunfast press (1997 reprinted 1998)
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May 4th, 2016 at 3:30 pm
dear diary
it's been quite awhile
since my last . . .
May 4th, 2016 at 3:44 pm
Like this John.
May 4th, 2016 at 3:46 pm
last entry in his dream diary a single clap of thunder
May 4th, 2016 at 10:41 pm
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thunder in the middle of his dream diary
—JOHN MCMANUS
Strangely, I have never been able to keep a writers' dream diary yet so many poets have them form the basis of their poems. They are such a rich resource.
.
Enjoy "thunder in the middle"!
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I normally prefer nightmares to dreams, but again they hardly make it to paper except for this one:
.
counting down
to those waking dreams
my skill at handguns
Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
c.2.2. Anthology of short-verse ed. Brendan Slater & Alan Summers
(Yet To Be Named Free Press 2013)
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And the only diary haiku I wrote was this one:
winter sun-
leaving the farm one last time
old diary finished
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Blithe Spirit vol. 5 no. 2 (1995); sundog haiku journal: an australian year, sunfast press (1997 reprinted 1998)
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May 23rd, 2016 at 3:54 am
I like this one, John. It is intriguing.
marion
May 23rd, 2016 at 6:34 am
Intriguing.
dear diary
dream on
too busy yet