or “help! a poet has taken over my brain!”
ZaNila Rhyme is a modern poetic form created by Laura LaMarcha. It features at least three quatrain stanzas with a specific rhyme scheme and syllable count. I think that I will title it “What creates the bad in a bad dream?”
Who is the monster in my nightmare?
Why does it look just like me?
A me with strange, frightening features
Another me squirming to be free.
Is my imagination my friend?
Why does it create such stuff
that makes me squirm and squeal with terror,
as if my brain were calling my bluff?
Or maybe it’s just something I ate,
overcooked or maybe raw
that has addled my very small brain.
A bad ingredient in cole slaw?
What creates the bad in a bad dream?
Or is it another look at me
the side of me always kept hidden
but, in dread dreams, screams to be let free.
Congratulations on finishing the challenge, Alice! And with such a lovely poem too! I’ve enjoyed reading your blogs this month!
Thank you so much, Kimberly, for reading my posts and for your very kind comments.
Great job on successfully finishing the 2022 A to Z Challenge! I never knew there were so many poetry forms.
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
Thank you, Arlee, for founding this challenge. I look forward to it every year. I really wasn’t planning on making poetry my theme, but life changes unexpectedly. I really appreciate your coming to visit and to read my poems!
Fantastic, well done for finishing, love the poem!
Thank you very much, Amanda!
Alice, you really went deep with that poem! I never EVER imagined there were so many forms of poetry. Congratulations on finishing the Challenge! Blessings!
Thank you, Kebba. I am so thankful that I’ve been able to take my poetry to another level! And happy to have finished the Challenge!!!
Lovely! You have the knack to weave words into a poem. I wish I can write poems again.
Glad to meet you in the UBC Challenge.
An interesting, fun and kind of scary view of dreams. They are odd, aren’t they? Congrats again, on finishing the challenges – especially with having physical ones this past month too.