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Monday, 9 June 2008

haiku - sleep

3am -
blackbird song
wakes me


sleep and insomnia for Mad Kane's Haiku prompt

You can read a senryu I wrote a while ago about insomnia over on Over Forty Shades here.

13 comments:

  1. Nice one. Birds are the only ones I forgive for waking me from sleep. There's a lot of it about at the moment - an exciting and busy time for many of them!

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  2. Nice, the other insomnia entry was good too! We are constantly dancing with not sleeping. Lately we both sleep better if I sleep with rabbits!

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  3. ah, but that's a nice way to be awakened :)

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  4. Insomnia not a problem, happily, but struggling with a midsummer poem about the late singing mistle thrush...

    I've ordered the Wendy Nyemeyer 'Unleash the poem' on your recommendation. It may arrive tomorrow...

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  5. Anonymous11:08 pm

    You’re lucky. I was woken around five this morning by the incessant, ugly chatter of magpies. I don’t know what had upset them – maybe there was a cat or some other predator in the vicinity of a nest – but what a racket they made, and it went on and on and on …

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  6. Anonymous1:34 am

    Ooh, wonderful! Once I wake up I have such trouble going back to sleep.

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  7. Yeah! We rattle our bowls and crocks and stuff about then too. Sure gets their attention - the lazy bones.

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  9. Anonymous12:32 pm

    I connect with this poem. Sleep can be a very fragile thing.

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  10. i love blackbirds but 3 am is a bit too early! i wouldn't be able to go back to sleep then. ;)

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  11. oh yeah!!! - succinct

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  12. "In the real dark nights of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning."--F. Scott Fitzgerald

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