November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 21: The Traveler: A Senryu

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I travel away

to worlds distant from my own

where I find myself

~Cie~

Notes:

Today's November PAD Chapbook Challenge asked for a Travel poem. Here is mine.

OctPoWriMo 2015: Day 18: Our Secret World

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Our Secret World

The Netherworld is the place we run

To escape real world demands

It's the one place where we can truly be ourselves

It doesn't matter if no-one else understands

~Mo~

Notes:

Over the years, the members of Team Netherworld have heard how our blogs are "stupid" and "weird," and so are we. Our founder, The Real Cie, gets the brunt of this as she created the Netherworld blogs and is the member of our group who is the most active, even if much of what she does is behind the scenes as our editor, making sure that each post will adhere to the Netherworld mythology.

It is so hurtful to have your creative work constantly torn down. Cie is a sensitive person, as is everyone in our group. Most of us have had to deal with people who just don't get where we're coming from, who think we should just put our foolish flights of fancy aside.

This is a terrible thing to say, especially as in some cases, the flights of fancy may be the one thing that keeps a person hanging on.

The Netherworld is real to us. It may not be "concrete reality," but in some ways it is more real.

As the verse on our blog header at Dark Hearts Love Too says, it's "the only place where you can dream, living here is not what it seems."

Bless Steve Harris for writing those magical lyrics. He's been an inspiration to us.

~Mo~

OctPoWriMo 2014: Day 27

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For the Dreamers

Dreamer, don't save your dreams for only those times when you're sleeping

Don't let the only time you dream be when you are sleepy

Don't wait for a nap to overtake you to allow your dreams to do so

For dreams aren't only for those who sleep

Let your dreams come when you're awake

Let your dreaming take you to faraway places

Even if insomnia has you in its grips

Don't let that stop you from dreaming

With love,

Dolly

Word Prompts: 

sleep (sleepy, sleeping)

dream (dreaming, dreamer)

nap

awake

insomnia

OctPoWriMo 2014: Day 26

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Hitchcock was indeed a master

I also loved his dry sense of humor on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents program

A trivia niblet:

Bill Mumy once spoke about working with both Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling. He said that Rod Serling was just the sweetest guy, so easy to get along with. If anyone messed up a line, he'd say "hey, that's all right, let's try it again."

Hitchcock, conversely, said:

"Little boy, if you mess up that line again, I'll eat you."

Just a little fun, remembering a talented curmudgeon who was one of my heroes of the film world. They don't make 'em like him any more!

Driving Force

For Spectra Ghostseeker

Sometimes the drive I feel to enter our secret universe 

And tell the tales that creep and crawl and dance and sway from synapse to synapse 

Is nothing short of frightening

It makes me wonder if perhaps I'm truly mad

In the darkness of my mind, spooky images delight

Where this compulsion to dream darkly comes from is mysterious

Why have I always sought the shadow?

Why have I never desired to dance in the light?

A clock striking midnight sets my heart to pounding

I tear out my heart and throw it upon my keyboard with a thud

I pour out my life's blood in these tales that I craft

Indeed, they may be nonsense to the outside observer peering in the window of my mind

But they mean the world to me

~Dolly~

Word Prompts: 

                                     Frightening

                                     Darkness

                                     Spooky

                                     Mysterious

                                     Thud

                                     Striking

                                     Midnight

                                     Pounding

30 Days of Haiga 2014: Day 7

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Verse:

Faycin A Croud

Photoshop Manipulation:

Cie Cheesemeister

L is for Lanturne

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Many ridicule me for being obsessed with creating alternate realities.

Many think I'm a fool for still being involved with such pursuits, owing to the amount of heartache I've suffered because of them.

Why would I keep doing it?

Am I a masochist?

I think the few words below explain what I've been trying to say for nearly 50 years.

Creativity

Love

Magic

 Imagine

Worlds and stories

Dream

~Cie~

Lanturne

The Lanturne is a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one.

Example #1:

    Swift
Winds blow
threatening,
 a tornado
   grows.

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