Good evening. I'm a little late to the party for today's poem but fortunately my partner reminded me before it was too late. Today's prompt comes from the site Imagine Forest and their rather lovely Random Prompt Generator which kicked out this one for me:
"Write about a bad dream you had recently"
Now I have plenty of these including one that is a recurring bad dream so I thought I would use that one. Here goes nothing:
Bad Dream
And here - on precipice
overlooking churn of ocean;
Poseidon's calling
while a storm blossoms above;
slate grey petals and white-blue
jagged stamen erupting out -
down toward you. A lighthouse stands
at the cliff's edge some way
in the distance, dormant
and dark. You move to take a coast
path to light it but something stops you;
as if the wind takes form of a man
just to push you towards a God's
demanding arms. So you fall, flailing
away from the rocky fascia of
the world and down to him,
down to the reaching foam-tipped
fingers waiting to close around
your throat-
start awake. Panting. Bathed in sweat.
Finally come up to breathe.
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