Omnia Insomnia
To have a rhyming Muse is quite
an irritating curse.
She showed up in my dream last night.
My sleep got worse and worse.
She finally yelled, “Wake up and write!!”
I went from bed to verse.
Barbara Loots earned her light-verse credentials during forty-one years as a writer for Hallmark Cards. She’s published a respectable number of poems in magazines, most recently I-70 Review, Pulsebeat, and The Lyric. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband, Bill Dickinson, ruled by Jane Austen (tuxedo kitty).