Poetry of the Netherworld: the canopy bed

By orneryowl | Naughty Netherworld Press | 28 Apr 2020

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in my childhoood

room there was a canopy bed

and I dreamed many big dreams of many big things, believing that one day

they would all come true, but in reality, big dreams lead to massive crashes

my dreams my hopes

came crashing down hard

nobody heard the sound of

my defeat except me

nobody gave a flying damn

I was just a stupid girl

being a massive drama queen

one day the canopy was

taken down and it was

never put back up

the little girl with a head full of dreams too massive for this world was dead

I buried her but the dreams continued to haunt me as I tried hard to conform

to a world that wasn't made for, that was filled with disdain for the likes of me

I no longer have a pretty canopy bed upon which to lay my ugly head, I said

to dream that I will wake up pretty and be the toast of the city, it's time to let

those dreams fall dead

don't look back now

your hope died somehow

it was too big

for this little world

now bury your dreams

and step in time

it's time to conform

you foolish little girl

notes

Boy howdy does this ever not look like a canopy bed on the Publish0x platform. (I created the poem on Blogger.) I have other projects that I'm working on and don't really have time to spend potential hours making it conform for the Publish0x platform. Suffice it to say, I suck at making shape poems anyway. It will look relatively like a canopy bed in my second poetry volume, due out in May.

I biffed the prompts yesterday (I did the "change" poem two days in a row), so today I'm doing two April PAD challenge prompts: massive and don't look back. The NaPoWriMo prompt was to describe a bedroom from my past.

And now for the inevitable blah-blah.

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