With 10 random words provided today (highlighted in blue) a theme formed from the first several words, but then some curve balls were thrown in and I had to work at it to get them to fit.  Overall, I think the poem came out okay but it didn’t take the direction I originally was wanting.  What do you think?

Here are the 10 people and their words who contributed today from twitter:

@wizzardsblog (hectic), @summerbreeze80 (caress), @coreblox (somnambulant), @azredneck (pharmacy), @Miragi (loquacious), @lejonprime (predisposed), @brullig (smarmy), @izealove (parade), @jamiain (basketball), @_McLaughlin (Tuesday)

Sleep Walking

Having trouble sleeping for weeks
Life troubles are a stench that reeks

Hectic job causes too much stress
With no one at home to hold and caress

Having become a somnambulant sleeper
Losing track of time as I fall deeper

Living this way has been rough
This Tuesday I finally had enough

Smarmy doctor wrote me a scrip
To the store I then took a trip

Pharmacy has sold me this pill
To help me sleep and lie still

A loquacious person in my sleep
I reveal the secrets that I keep

Was I predisposed to this condition
Finding a cure is my new mission

I sat down much later that night
Watching basketball, my hopes were bright

If this pill works, I hoped and prayed
I would flaunt the cure in a parade

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

I deliberately left this poem open ended, leaving the reader to not know whether it works or doesn’t.

Charms and Trinkets

Will I adorn your arms
With all sorts of charms

Baubles, Trinkets and colors to spare
The rainbow itself you shall wear

A queen among peasants
A peacock among pheasants

Worth showering with presents
And all that it represents

With some luck and a boon
We shall sail under the moon

All for adorning these lovely arms
With some trinkets and some charms

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

Patterns

A glimpse of red and a pinch of blue
And soon you can see a pattern of two
Some yellow that blends with some pink
You make sense of this jumble of ink

What form should fill the page so fine
Shapes and colors that start with a line
When the pencils and oils set you free
A new object bringing the total to three

Your hands are all shaky from hours of toil
Would it be a masterpiece or just a gargoyle
You love how the colors blend in the back
Red fades to green and green fades to black

The finished work is signed you put down your pen
Now the day is over and tomorrow you begin again

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

Wrote this poem while in Las Vegas in a conference about how each of us has both light and dark inside.

I Am Light, I Am Dark

I bring the light which shines your path
I help those who look for salvation
I comfort your children and your elderly
I am the one who inspires morality

I bleed the dark and feast on your future
I am the one people fear to meet
I stand alone with your shadows behind me
I am the purveyor of all your sins

I am the light who fills your life with hope
I am also the vast dark who keeps your secrets
I am everything both light and dark within you
I am just a phantom of your reflection

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

Seeds of Darkness

Come forth creatures of night
From the shadow you are birthed
Ancient horrors have come to be
Sanity is cast from reality

Visions have foretold this very day
Of monsters and ghasts with one intention
To rend your soul from your possession
And add it to their tally

Demons snarl and banshees howl
Your ears betray you and you mind unravels
Look upon these evil beings
And see your own reflection in the mirror

Poem by Dragon Blogger

What Have I Done?

Think back to a moment in your life
where you made a choice
one small choice

The effects which had consequences
of which you could not predict
one small choice

At the time it seemed right
didn’t it?
one small choice

You shall pay for that moment
for the rest of your life
one small choice

You think to yourself
was this worth it?
one small choice

That is when it hits you
one small choice and you think
What have I done?

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

My Heart Is True

My heart is true
I know this
For when alone
I think of you

My heart is found
Love exists
Echoing
A barely audible sound

My heart bleeds
Standing tall
Being there
For your needs

My heart is true
Mine to give
There is no love
Without you

My heart is pure
Unfiltered
Love Raw
Can be a cure

-Poem by Dragon Blogger