Poetry Superhighway April 2023 Poems

Somewhere Lost over the Rainbow PSH

Somewhere Lost over the Rainbow PSH

Somewhere
Way up high
Over the rainbow

Past the rail road tracks
There is another land
Another world

Found only in one’s dreams
And nightmares
And dark lullaby

In this dream world
One dreams do come true
But only if you believe

The dream gods
Take you there
Nightly

To the other world
But what if the other world
Is the real world

And this world
Is nothing but an illusion
A dream world

Within a dream world
Lost in a dark world
Of one’s own creation??

And what if you
Can never awaken
Back to this world?

Lost forever
In the land
On the other side
Of the rainbow?

[Verse 1]
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

[Verse 2]
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
[Bridge]
Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

[Verse 3]
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why, then, oh, why can't I?
This poetry writing prompt submitted by Lara Dolphin:
Somewhere over the Rainbow . . . there’s a poem.
Write constrained poem using only the words allotted to Dorothy Gale in MGM’s The Wizard of Oz. To build up a lexicon, you could watch the movie over and over or for a handy transcript click here.
Bonus points if your poem touches on a theme from the movie e.g. “There’s no place like home.”
If you write a poem from this prompt, post it as a comment underneath the prompt in the Poetry Super Highway Facebook Group.



April 16, 2023: poetry writing prompt from karen watts