Lycia Harding Poet Sonnet

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This poem was written with the 'HexSonnetta' format developed by Andrea Dietrich in mind.

Behind Your Closet Door

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Behind your closet door,
a monster, you decide,
has moved the toys aside
to snooze upon the floor.
So near you'll hear him snore
you fear, from there inside.

So I, this very night,
when certain you have been
kissed on your cherry chin
and loved with all my might,
in just the gentle light
the moon and stars let in,

will hold you safe and tight
until your dreams begin...

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Eileen Manassian September 30, 2015 at 10:16 PM You are a pro at this form, Lycia. Such beauty in each line. You are SERIOUSLY talented, woman! :) My dream would be to have a form I've come up with. I've tried my hand at two, and Craig sponsored a contest in one of them....but.....I need to fine tune it. :) Great write. Lycia Harding September 30, 2015 at 10:55 PM PS - I SO want to invent a new form, too! I really like Andreas 'HexSonetta' and Nette Onclauds 'four lines' and use both often but Im always up for a challenge so if you need a guinne pig to try out anything you've got in evelopement, please enlist me Lycia Harding September 30, 2015 at 10:48 PM Thank you, Eileen! This poem is one of several written for a childrens anthology my mother is putting together and like the others, has illustratrations Ive done to go along with it. I just got a new scanner and plan to upload them all to their respective poems as soon as I get them all scanned. I think youll really like them...

Eric Boddie September 29, 2015 at 10:18 AM since you will hold me tight....I will feel no fright....not now or never more....fearless of the closet door....;) Lycia Harding September 29, 2015 at 10:53 AM Dont fret your pretty head .... just hide beneath the bed .... Hold on, no that wont do .... Theyre underneath there, too!

Paul Callus September 26, 2015 at 5:41 PM What a lovely approach to this delightful poem, Lycia! Imagination and fantasy play an important part in our lives, especially in those of young ones. #7 hugs // paul Lycia Harding September 26, 2015 at 9:26 PM Thank you, Paul. xoxo

Mark Woods September 26, 2015 at 2:26 PM Ohh I like this, it reads very well. If it's for the contest good luck. Lycia Harding September 26, 2015 at 3:56 PM Totally! I wrote another one that just took 2nd in the contest introducing the format itself blah, blah, blah but anyway, you might like it. It's called 'would that I had turned', check it out and then perhaps you will try one in this style yourself, no? Mark Woods September 26, 2015 at 3:29 PM It is really cool, flows so nicely and ties all the words so well through the verse. Lycia Harding September 26, 2015 at 2:52 PM Thank you, Mark. Yeah, this is for that contest. This format was developed by Souper Andrea Dietrich, its cool, huh?