I woke in a stupor
My feelings were weird
I had gone to bed sleepy
Was the wine I declared
I had been in the bar
With a friend till quite late
Just a colleague from work
It wasn’t a date
I didn’t drink much
Only one glass or two
No reason for feeling
The way that I do
I sensed that a nightmare
Had caused me to wake
I was back in the Pleistocene Times
For goodness sake!
I felt I was flying
In some sort of form
Not a hawk or an owl
Swooping down for a worm
No! A huge pterodactyl
With fine scaly skin
That was me, waking up
In the bed I was in
I felt my arms flapping
Like wings on the bed
I flew to the mirror
And it has to be said
I looked very strange
Not ugly not elegant
Just a plain pterodactyl
Not a horse or an elephant
So lessons are learned
No wine before bed
Then you’ll sleep like an angel
Not a pterodactyl instead!
*This was a warm-up activity in 2022 - A Word Maze.
Between us, we chose 8 random words and inserted them into a story, poem or prose,
written spontaneously in 10-15 minutes
These were our chosen words:
stupor, weird, sleepy, elegant, bar, sign, wine, pterodactyl
2 comments:
I thought this was brilliant when you wrote it - under such pressure, in such a short time. It definitely deserved another hearing. So funny x
Blimey - that IS a tough set of words - amazing that you managed them!!
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