8 Matching Contest - Dream Haiku

Fall 2015 • Millikin University

 

reliving our love
through the dream world . . .
I hate to wake up

asleep yet awake
dreaming
or am I?

“five more minutes”
two hours later
I wake up and panic

day after Christmas
I linger in bed
to let the dream end

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TOP half Chamption

 

bottom quarter champion

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my pillow damp
from the sweat
nightmare

soaring over clouds
diving into the deep sea
better than reality

when I wake
I wish I could go back
to the place in my dream

lost in wonderland
I come across
the wrong Alice

 

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I lay in bed and
dream of dreaming—
insomniac nights

mother always said
dream of chocolate cake
works for me

jolting awake
can't shake the feeling
of falling

jolting
awake in pitch black
only a nightmare

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body sleeping
crooked arm twitches
grasping for you

he says
I could never love you”
I wake up

a face I can’t remember
reminds me
to wake up

one million firefly kisses
illuminate the dark
behind these tired eyes

© 2015, Randy Brooks • Millikin University. All rights returned to authors upon publication.