Stine Writing and Miniatures

W3 Prompt #81: Wea’ve Written Weekly

W3 Prompt #81: Wea’ve Written Weekly
https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/11/15/w3-prompt-81-weave-written-weekly/

As days grow shorter in the northern hemisphere, I find myself going to bed a bit earlier and rising a bit later. More time for dreaming! This week’s prompt is to write a “lento” on the topic of dreams. This could be about dreams themselves, the act of dreaming, the dreamer or a dreamlike quality.

Cool, Dark Nights

Cooling nights are coming fast
Schooling days end in the dark
Grueling work to make time last
Fooling night with candle’s spark

Dark falls fast behind my eyes
Mark my mind with stories told
Stark reminder that dreams are lies
Park your feelings out in the cold

©2023 CBialczak

A Lento consists of two quatrains with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb, defe as the second and forth lines of each stanza must rhyme. To take it a step further, but not required, try rhyming the first and third lines as well as the second and forth lines of each stanza in this rhyming pattern: abab, cdcd. The fun part of this poem is thrown in here as all the FIRST words of each verse should rhyme. There is no fixed syllable structure to the Lento, but keeping a good, flowing rhythm is recommended.

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