Somniloquy (2015 APR PAD - Day 2)

photo by PSC / 2015

“In the deeper recesses of every heart is a store of hoarded secrets.”  

– Christian Nestell Bovee, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.” 

– Robert Frost, The Secret Sits

Somniloquy

Our dreams are h(a)unted,

but not by those things

that go bump in the night –

ghosts and hobgoblins,

banshees, ogres and ghouls.

No, we stress over

the conceivable uncovering

of clandestine privacies;

are pestered by

the possible discovery

of covert li(v)es.

We fuss and fret

over secrets we keep,

and the rational fear

of talking

in our sleep.

PSC/2015

The above poem is written in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides APRIL PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge for Day 2 (a “secret” poem):  

 WD RLB's PA 2015 April PAD Challenge - DAY 2

Below are some additional links for Robert’s PAD Challenge:

WD RLB's PA 2015 April PAD Challenge - GUIDELINES

WD RLB's PA 2015 April PAD Challenge - TIPS

NOTE:  In the spirit of the TIPS' suggestion #6 (Focus on writing first drafts) I’ve left my day 1 offering for another time.  It’s presently a very rough draft and a work-in-progress that I’m still intending to revisit & revise, so I won’t post it here in its current “half-naked” state.

Anyway, here’s a link to the Day 1 prompt and postings for Robert’s Poetic Asides PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge (a “resistance” poem):  

WD RLB's PA 2015 April PAD Challenge - DAY 1