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When children dream,

When children dream, When children drop off to dream, silently sailing on a shallowed stream. Primrose petals perforating patterned banks, playing keek boo with a soft summer sun. and imagining only of the best. arsenals of aromatic airways, siphoning, only syrup scented sighings. Special splotted splendour splashes about lively little lashes. Dreaming on delightfully delirious, as dragons delve and dive. Flying furiously about a purple planet. firing flames upon their breath, and heating the ovens, and so baking the giants bread. The guardians stand solidly at the entrance, and whispering quietly bye the bye. They know the giant lives outside the dream, and any sound could awaken fresh troubles. As with darkness creeps a child’s mind, imaging all things crunchy and kind. Are we not but children still, but older, and with a live less strict, be much bolder. And slay our own dragons, that be, and then our childish selves, set free.
— Roscoe Lane, Apr 01, 2010

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Region, Country: Scotland, Ayrshire land of Burns.., GBR

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panaella

16 years 2 months ago

shhhhh....sleeping children

Very evocative of childish dreams...sweet and innocent but edged with dragon lairs and wee ghosty shapes... Great alliteration...I always associate chidhood with freshly launderd pillow cases, the smell of the breeze wafting me off to dreams on clouds ironed in by my mum... lovely. Ells x
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pamela

16 years 2 months ago

word games

Dear R., I loved this piece. I wonder why did you choose shallowed instead of just shallow? I really like it I just wondered why? oh, keek boo is wonderful, I love the way you play word games. P.
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odd molly

16 years 2 months ago

Lovely and lovely poem and I

Lovely and lovely poem and I love the thought of that if we care to listen we will find that the child in us is always there. As soon as we forget about it we get lost. And the dragon has a long history and his mission in our life is important I think. love. o molly