MID-NIGHTMARES
It haunts the wicked parts of sleep,
where even dream's darkest corners will not tread.
Drowning shadows in the stinging tears we weep,
immobilizing dream and dreamer, frozen to the bed.
We cannot move a lower limb or arm,
and every image seen will prick the skin.
Grit fear, the grizzly thing will strike and harm,
and strangle dreamer with its seething grin.
Darkest fears that make the blackest black look white,
and play frenetic brain with worst scenario and dread.
A thousand deaths as though the sky were blind of stars at night,
nor birth by sun will cease these apparitions boiling in our head.
No air to lungs nor breath to spirit as we sleep,
and blue the blood is tainted by the plots and schemes.
The heart may jump or run and charge to sudden leap,
and straightaway we're lost in frail and whispered dreams.
Each of us delivered from the vile unpleasant thing,
for one warm soul to wake us with the morning's bell.
Companion, embrace and take us up and under wing,
and send the beasts of vision back to fade away in hell!
By Edlynn Nau
May 12, 2015
Contest: Dark Poetry
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
Placed: SECOND PRIZE
An ever night
Perhaps as silent as it can ever be
Forever beyond light
Where shadows is no longer to see
To only be beyond that of time
Kept bounded forever in mysteries
Where light shall forever fail to shine
For the night I remain in its boundaries
That I’ll be
If forever… I’ll see
A never when
Distant is plan
Nothing is to know
Everything is to follow
Light shall fade
Life shall await
Nevermore will there be time
Sadness as well is forsaken behind
Dreams are all kept true
To begin means everything is new
Adrift upon the sky beneath
Aloof with the sands on our feet we leave
What’s to know… we are all unknown
A place we stay… we have no home
Like souls touching the air
Unlike life where death shall spare
All desires no longer yearn
We are strangers who will learn
Nothing more shall be to forgive
We are out of choices to not believe
Up and under… so high to feel so low
We need death to feel our soul
The loneliness follows the stranger who walks
And for the stranger… the wind shall stalk
Is there a dying night?
Perhaps silently it remains to be
Forever to never once see light
What do you see?
The ultimate thrill,
Up and down,
Up and under,
The clouds my companions.
I play in the sky,
Big twirling loops,
The wide blue sky comforts me,
My salvation.
In the sky I’m free,
In the sky I’m me,
The sky’s my playground,
I’m glad I found.
My endless inspiration,
Clouds of perspiration,
O how I wish I’ll never leave,
And lose this place.
I spread my wings out wide,
And fly in the endless blue,
I love it here,
Here I’m free to be me.
Leave Earths bonds behind,
Gravity can’t rule me no more,
The ultimate thrill,
Leave Earth behind.
Bliss in your kiss
Rapture and joy
Each time we meet
I'm glad to be your boy
Love in your kiss
Happiness and wonder
In and around
Wrapped up and under
Your lips bring awe
Prettiest set I ever saw
Kiss me now, set me free
Pressed to mine is where yours should be