Night-Shift Forest: An Aubade*
Sun’s smiles
glinting in between
our tinted window pane,
slowly erase
traces of last night’s
forest of hand and teeth-
oh, what a shame!
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In response to May Book Prompts – by Sarah Doughty and MahWrites.
Today’s prompt is The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1) by Carrie Ryan.
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The Alba or Aubade is:
- a love poem, most often mourning the parting of lovers while extolling the coming day.
- constructed at the discretion of the poet, length, stanzaic form, meter and or rhyme. although often a smattering of rhyme is present without any particular rhyme scheme.
- dramatic since it is often dialogue between the parting lovers or coming from a cuckold husband or a watchman’ warning. Sometimes dialogue is silent, expressed in images.
Wow, powerful little write, Rosey.
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Thank you my M! ❤ A product of my tireless imagination. ❤
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You do really have a constantly creating brain–a blessing and a curse, I imagine 🙂
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haha! a curse when I badly want to sleep but I can’t stop imagining things. haha!!
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I can relate!
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yeah! 😀 😀 😀
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Wow this is amazing!
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Thank you very much, love! ❤
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The title is intriguing! And, evidently, a good time was had by all the night before. Cool!
If you haven’t read The Forest of Hands and Teeth, it is raw but very good.
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Thank you for the insightful words, Christopher! 😀 My imagination is as restless as ants on summer. 😀
I would take note of that! 😀
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great aubade. I love the visceral description of the forest at night–hands and teeth indeed! Clever usage of a book title.
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Thank you, Mel! Got to make my imagination work! 😀
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Your imagination works perfectly 🙂 You’re welcome 🙂
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Thank you very much, Mel! 🙂
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Playful thinking Rosema! I couldn’t help but think of our friend, Mr. Grey here. ^^
P.S. I’m grinning while reading this.
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HAHAHAHA! I am so sure you will have Mr. Grey in your mind, Maria! Because yeah.. he is somehow an influencer for this piece! HAHAHA
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HAHAHA! We’re really partners in crime when it comes to Mr. Grey (and many more!). Ooooh… I could work night-shifter if it’s him! Hahaha! XD
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HAHAHAHAHAHA! Naughty, you, eh!
P.S.
My latest poem for May Book Prompt is also about him! GEEZ! Why is he on my poetries! HAHAHA
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Because he is such a gorgeous inspiration?! XD Hahahaha! Naughty YOU!
P.S. I haven’t read that post yet. Apologies! Will be hopping on your blog in a while. ^^
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No worries my dearest Maria! 😀 ❤ It's okay! 🙂
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Yes! This is perfection. :]
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Oh wow! That is too much! ❤
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Reblogged this on Pens and Erasers and commented:
This is one of the reasons why I absolutely love that I transitioned over from Blogger to WordPress. The WordPress community is absolutely amazing and filled with talented writers who are willing to give each other feedback and encourage one another. Rosema’s poem is definitely a beautiful example. Go give it a read! :]
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Thank you dearest! 🙂
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Oooh! It goes from beautiful to beautifully naughty 😀
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HAHA! You got that so right, NJ! 😀 😀 😀
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