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Array ( [sid] => 162158 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Shadow Dream. [time] => 2010-09-05 03:09:35 [hometext] => Had this strange dream the other night. A shadow in the wood, was that shadow me? Or even you? [bodytext] => In a winter wood I came upon a shadow.
Wearied by loneliness it haunted this wild desolate place.
No breeze stirred, no birds sang, no fox barked
And no badger groveled in the earth of his sect.
The air hung heavy with a dark premonition.
I looked above me at the rising tree line,
The tall branches stripped bare by the season's wrath.
I sat on a stump of oak and watched fragments of sky
Penetrate the gaps in the trees
And all around the woodland floor trembled,
The air echoed with hollow laughter,
A pale imitation of happiness.
From somewhere far distant thunder grumbled,
Lightening forked and split the tree line.
I stood up and embraced the advancing shadow,
Entered its loneliness and claimed my birthright. [comments] => 5 [counter] => 217 [topic] => 14 [informant] => cashfan1 [notes] => Hopefully corrected spelling as requested to your satisfaction. Not sure what "sett" was supposed to be. :) Changed to sect. ~ Moderator_18 Sept 5, 2010 [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 9 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => DreamsandWishes )

Shadow Dream.

Contributed by cashfan1 on Sunday, 5th September 2010 @ 03:09:35 AM in AEST
Topic: DreamsandWishes

In a winter wood I came upon a shadow.
Wearied by loneliness it haunted this wild desolate place.
No breeze stirred, no birds sang, no fox barked
And no badger groveled in the earth of his sect.
The air hung heavy with a dark premonition.
I looked above me at the rising tree line,
The tall branches stripped bare by the season's wrath.
I sat on a stump of oak and watched fragments of sky
Penetrate the gaps in the trees
And all around the woodland floor trembled,
The air echoed with hollow laughter,
A pale imitation of happiness.
From somewhere far distant thunder grumbled,
Lightening forked and split the tree line.
I stood up and embraced the advancing shadow,
Entered its loneliness and claimed my birthright.

Copyright © cashfan1 ... [ 2010-09-05 03:09:35]
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Re: Shadow Dream. (User Rating: 1 )
by Debris on Sunday, 5th September 2010 @ 06:23:02 AM AEST
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I really like this CF1, though I'm slightly biased as I do a good bit of dream work in my job. Dreams are such an amazing source for writers- and they're all your own unique thoughts. In this piece I can feel the fear and uncertainty, yet the strength in the ending. I particularly like "A pale irritation of happiness", what a great sentence. Thanks for posting.

Re: Shadow Dream. (User Rating: 1 )
by spud on Sunday, 5th September 2010 @ 08:30:47 AM AEST
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Hi Dennis,

Spooky! Hope it's not catching, this was too
realistic for me.

Well scripted, scribe!

Tommy

Re: Shadow Dream. (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Sunday, 5th September 2010 @ 03:02:36 PM AEST
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Crikey, this almost makes my dreams look optimistic. They say dreams are just the brain's way of trying to resolve problems, in my experience they tend to create more problems than they solve.

-Phil

Re: Shadow Dream. (User Rating: 1 )
by thebadguy9999 on Sunday, 5th September 2010 @ 08:32:50 PM AEST
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nice

Re: Shadow Dream. (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Sunday, 26th September 2010 @ 11:12:08 AM AEST
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sweet

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