Hail, poets! Raise your glasses
For I'd like to make a toast
To thoughts that dissipated
With the sunrise, like a ghost.
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This one really grabbed me as I can relate. I wake sometimes in the middle of the night and have to get up to write down a stanza or phrase or idea. When I do fall back to sleep I hate myself for not getting up as you said, it's gone. Great flow and rhyme, original content.
When in bed....for some reason...without fail.....I rise to put in writing every poetic thought that crosses my mind. Just a quirk I suppose.
Oh so true! This happens to me all the time. I have a thought and then it is gone.. Brilliant piece..
This is so so true. The frustration of it all. You said it perfectly.