Behind Your Closet Door

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

======================== 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

Date: 9/30/2015 10:16:00 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
Date: 9/30/2015 10:55:00 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
Date: 9/30/2015 10:48:00 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

Date: 9/29/2015 10:18:00 AM

since you will hold me tight....I will feel no fright....not now or never more....fearless of the closet door....;)

Lycia Harding
Date: 9/29/2015 10:53:00 AM

Dont fret your pretty head .... just hide beneath the bed .... Hold on, no that wont do .... Theyre underneath there, too!

Paul Callus

Date: 9/26/2015 5:41:00 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
Date: 9/26/2015 9:26:00 PM

Thank you, Paul. xoxo

Mark Woods

Date: 9/26/2015 2:26:00 PM

Ohh I like this, it reads very well. If it's for the contest good luck.

Lycia Harding
Date: 9/26/2015 3:56:00 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
Date: 9/26/2015 3:29:00 PM

It is really cool, flows so nicely and ties all the words so well through the verse.

Lycia Harding
Date: 9/26/2015 2:52:00 PM

Thank you, Mark. Yeah, this is for that contest. This format was developed by Souper Andrea Dietrich, its cool, huh?