Locked
\nby cricketjeff on September 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
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Then she closed the book of dreams and locked it tight
\nAnd with dragon breath the key was burnt away
\nNow the fairy of my soul has died tonight
\nAnd I’ve dreamt my final dream is all she’ll say<\/p>\n
When you walked away from me the magic died
\nAnd she closed the book of dreams and locked it tight
\nSo now all that’s left to me is “run and hide”
\nI can’t see there’ll ever be another light<\/p>\n
All my life I’ve had her dreams safe in my sight
\nBut my fairy and her dragon are no more
\nNow she’s closed the book of dreams and locked it tight
\nAnd my soul is left expiring on the floor<\/p>\n
There’s such hardship in a life without a dream
\nAnd the spark I thought was me has died of fright
\nWhen you walked I wonder if you heard my scream
\nAs you slammed my book of dreams and locked it tight<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nLooking closely at the beautiful picture
\nBOOK OF DREAMS by=manips-of-artist2
\nYou will see the book is finished, that is the back cover. Hence the poem …<\/p>\n
Oh the form, well it is sort of based on a Quatern, but they have 8 syllable
\nlines and the repeating line should be more exactly repeated (small variations
\nare allowed and expected). Here I just picked a meter I liked and went with
\nthat, changing the line just enough for each stanza.<\/p>\n
You may find the meter a little awkward, try reading it like this …<\/p>\n
Then she CLOSED | the book of DREAMS | and locked it TIGHT<\/p>\n
Just three stresses on each line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Locked by cricketjeff on September 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/0b517a13a67d00d48f03c61fe438105f.html] Then she closed the book of dreams and locked it tight And with dragon breath the key was burnt away Now the fairy of my soul has died tonight And I’ve dreamt my final dream is all she’ll say When you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8317,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3191\/revisions\/8317"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}