There comes a time
to go to bed
when there’s a rhyme
stuck in my head
that feels it must
be free, though just
somehow not now
(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2020
Originally published advertising free at “If You Haven’t Got A Sonnet”
Thanks to Susi Bocks at I Write Her for pointing out today, 21 March, is World Poetry Day in her “Celebrate Your Passion” post! I didn’t realize that when I posted my poem above. Why not take the time today to discover new poets, read poetry you love, or write something just because!
If You Haven't Got A Sonnet 
Decades ago, I would work things out in my head before committing them to paper because I hated writing rough drafts. Now it serves me quite well, I can remember in the morning what I worked out at midnight.
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Thanks. I try not to, but I still get the urge to have to write something after I’ve settled in to sleep. Very frustrating on mornings I have to get up early. 🙂
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Love it!! I stopped trying to “call it back” when I’d get a poem-start while sleeping…if it’s gone, I’m not getting up– there will always be another one 🙂
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Thank you! I wish I could stop. But they niggle at me from the side. I still have one from maybe two years ago now that keeps almost popping in. 🙂
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You are kidding!!! Two years ago…I guess there’s no expiration date, eh? 🙂
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The worst part is I remember it being such great lines for what I was writing, and in reality they probably weren’t. 🙂
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Hahaha…they may well have been great–but if not, a delusion can be a wonderful thing (otherwise, I’d have not lived this long)! 🙂
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Sometimes I wake up in the late night coz I feel the poem and then I have to write it down the very moment. Can’t wait for the next morning coz that very moment is now.
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Thank you! And if you don’t write it you spend half the next day trying to remember it. At least I do. 🙂
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True…the words sometimes vaporize…then only a few droplets can be captured….
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Oh nice one, that’s why I have post its on the night stand. A bevy of thoughts in a drawer. 🤓
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Thank you! I have so many unfinished poems or stray lines tucked away.
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You’re welcome. Doesn’t every writer?! 😁
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I love it, Stephen! It has such a wonderful cadence to it. Happy World Poetry Day to you, fellow poet! 🙂
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Thank you very much, Susi! And Happy World Poetry Day to you as well!
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