Matrix Moments

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Sleepless Toss

On the couch
Reading a book
Early evening
Skeptical sleep keeps
calling eyelids over eyes.
When I finally sleep that night
It is to awaken at 2 o'clock
The turn of slow seconds
drip out of disturbed dreams
dark eddies still there 
as I lay seeking slumber 
Praying
but experiencing obsidian unbelief
Trapped hopes...
sleep of the sleepless.

Starting Thoughts: The moment when the brain awake can't seem to send its thoughts into the darkness around and in your head. Sleep is hard to find in the mind.
Poem Topic Tags:
#awake, #couch, #dreams, #hopes, #restless, #sleeplessness, #time
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Trying to find sleep poetry

Couch Potatoe

Excuse my squashed writing
For I am writing this poem
From inside a couch,
Just yesterday, I fell asleep in the sun
Streaming hot through the window
And I slipped through the cushion gap
To join the lost coins, gathered dust
and dried food crumbs.
I hear the outside world
muffled by leather and foam
I'm interior, you're exterior
I hope you can read this note I slipped out.
For I'm squish writing this poem
From inside a couch.

We read, "It's Dark in Here" a poem by Shel Silverstein to inspire us in our "point of view" poetry.... The boys followed this model closely and then with larger variations as they produced two pieces to reflect how writers have a point of view. The montages were produced with creative commons images using layering, masking and montage techniques with Pages on their macBooks.

WALT:
To communicate experiences, with descriptive language, so that others can feel they are there.

Success Criteria:
  • Write about the topic from different points-of-view
  • To write in a poetry style that has been given.
  • Focus on strong adjectives
  • Use commas to set the rhythm of the poem
  • Short interesting thoughts, one per line
  • Unnecessary and small words cut out.
  • To design a montage to match your poem using layering, masking and alpha tools.
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