Twixt & Tween Seems Mean

The Challenge: All Night Long - This challenge asks you to create a story or poem that spans a whole night. What happens? How do you make it through to dawn? But here’s the twist: you must not use the words “light”, “day”, “night” nor “dark”.

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LOUD insects rattle opinions that the quiet birds find obscene

Soothing~grating songs induce sandpaper dreams

or are those the hurried heartbeats of hectic schemes?

Earlier reasoning careens

Thoughts scream to submit & come clean

Silence creates the crime scenes.

It's long past time to vent spleens

Preens should become so routine that they take on sheens that make them more than what they seem

Have fun being mean!

When you blame the machine!

There's no need for sunscreen!

~~ F e e l ✨ S e r e n e✨~~

Take what you can gleam

from betwixt & between

What informs is unseen.

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This poem came about solely because I was tagged by James & Oneg for their challenge. <see below> ⚡😁👍 Initially, I was a little flummoxed about the idea of writing about a night without being able to say 'night' or 'dark.' Then I read Mother Comb's poem and that helped get my creative juices flowing. Here's Mother's poem. 👇

I was in the middle of writing new comedy when I learned I was tagged so I have not yet read anyone else's entry, but I'll be back to read them all soon.

I tag Tiffany Gordon and Raymond G. Taylor!

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