My poem: Winning at Solitaire

[CaliforniaPeggy]

the full moon spills its light
across my bedroom floor
no mockingbirds sing
tonight
still the traffic roars
my Japanese school house clock
ticks
it’s nearly the hour

the computer cursor blinks in time
with the ticking
of my
clock
the red alarm light tells me
our security is
secure
my feet twitch
I can’t sleep

I am winning at
Solitaire


© 2010 MLC

[XemaSab]

1. Hi Peggy!

Sorry to hear that you're having trouble sleeping.

You try half a lunestra? Works wonders. :pals:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Xema!

It was a run of a couple of nights, is all...

I'm fine, actually.

The days I get off my duff and go to the gym I really do just fine!

Thanks, sweetie...

:pals:

[NanceGreggs]

3. One of your best so far ...

... and that's saying something.

I sometimes wonder if sleep truly eludes us - or if we simply cling to wakefulness for fear of what we may dream.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Nance...

It's funny. I just started thinking of all the things I was seeing that particular night....and hearing too...

And then I thought this might make an interesting poem, something out of the ordinary.

Hey......I'm not afraid of no stinkin' dream!

I think.

Thanks, sweetie...

[NanceGreggs]

5. That is the magic of the piece ...

... the "ordinariness" of the night visions, the night sounds ... that sometimes lull us not into sleep, but into a restlessness of the soul.

We can control those sights and sounds simply by relying upon their presence, and falling into their rhythm.

It is the cacophony of our dreams - uncontrollable, loud, and unabashed - that we choose to avoid, lest we be led into their sublime madness.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I tend to agree...

And my soul's restlessness leads me to my computer where I write...

It makes me glad.

[NanceGreggs]

14. If it makes you glad ...

... then nothing else matters.

It is the gladness of it all that fills those sleepless nights with a welcome restfulness of its own.

[Sweet Charming Dem]

7. wow, that's really good

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Why, thank you...

I dabble from time to time...

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Sweet Charming Dem]

12. Thanks!

:hi:

[blue neen]

9. I wish I could use my insomnia in such a talented way.

I'm up tonight because of having to taking steroids today. I have been getting a lot of cleaning done, though! :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear blue neen!

Insomnia does have its uses!

I'm sorry you have it too...but you know what's causing yours. AND you get useful things done with it!

I hope that your need for steroids goes away quickly, so you can get some sleep...

Thanks for your kind words...

:hug:

[jotsy]

11. Musing over the monumental nature of this particular moment in time, Miss Peg?

I sense a bit of calamity in the clashing of cultures, contemporary and traditional vie for the better rep. I'd say try not to doubt you're a beacon, but advice is easy to dispense and difficult to take. My thirteen year old is learning to sing a song that makes me think of you.

From Prince Caspian, The Call
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7uoC-YTQy8>

If I've posted it before and have forgotten, I apologize. I'm trying to enhance my skill set with a spot at wordpress and it's got me a bit frazzled.

Take care
j.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear jotsy...

What a great song! I really identify with the lyrics...

I don't consider the moment monumental in my poem. I just was observing what I saw/heard or didn't hear that night, and thought it might make something a bit different than my usual words...

Am I a beacon? I appreciate your thoughts, as I always do...

:hug:

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. My dear CaliforniaPeggy!

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This one you knocked out of the park.
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It's hard, VERY hard to write about things we are experiencing while
we're actually IN THE MOMENT -- too hard for objectivity and distance.
THOSE poems too often come out not as poetry, but just a narrative
that is poetry only in the writer's mind -- we sometimes fool ourselves
into thinking that something so PERSONALLY intense just can't help
but translate itself to everyone else.
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But this poem impresses me greatly -- your use of all the little things in
your environment that were ganging up on you to create one loud and
obnoxious BUZZZZZZZZZZ to make the seconds stretch out to infinity
don't tell us -- they illustrate...even REVEAL to us just how you were
feeling. That presentation made me feel, made me recall with a very very
strong sense-memory my own extremely infrequent bouts of insomnia.
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It's been a long time since I've written anything as simply powerful.
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Excellent.
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[applegrove]

16. Lovely

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. do you have restless leg syndrome?

twitchy feet....

that is what mine do.

[denbot]

18. I don't know why but your poem cracked me up..

Thank you for posting it.

[Orrex]

20. A poem about playing with yourself?

:freak:

[LeftyFingerPop]

21. Why would you speak to an older woman like that?

[OmahaBlueDog]

22. She's really 22. Those pictures we sometimes see are of an aunt..

..or so I've heard.

[Capn Sunshine]

24. Yes, it's true. She's 22

where it counts, baby!
(get your mind out of the gutter...in her mind! CA Peggy is perpetually young.

and great poem , Peg. :hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. consider the source....

of things heard.

[CreekDog]

35. Jeez, nice defense there

[Tuesday Afternoon]

25. et tu?

:(

[Orrex]

28. The joke sort of presented itself

It dates back at least as far as Jaws, for instance.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

29. there is a good ole country song about it playing with a deck of 51

I always did like that song.

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[Dystopian]

23. And...

You are winning at life...:hug:
Thank you for sharing ...once again ...beautiful.


peace~

[Kali]

27. Peggy,

I just want to apologize for being part of the highjacking of your thread. Man, the assholes are out again tonight.

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[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

34. betcha yer gonna regret this in the mornin

it's like you're a slave to your reptilian instincts, almost like a Zombie or something. Now slither on out of here real nice and quiet like.

[kimi]

31. I know exactly how it feels, Ca Peggy!

To have all those outside stimuli going on, but still, the Solitaire muse goes on. It really gets to you, in the throes of insomnia. I get it, oh yeah.

:hi: Hope you sleep well tonight, CA Peggy, cause you've given me some very nice images. Thank you!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. Thanks, my dear kimi!

I'm good and tired tonight; I think sleep will come easily!

And if not?

There's always Solitaire!:P

Thank you, sweetie...

:hug:

[kimi]

33. Take care honey!

There's always tomorrow. You sleep well, now!