WRITING OBSTACLE
Write a short story about a modern-day issue in the style of a famous historical author.
Choose an author's style that your readers will recognise (e.g. Shakespeare, or Jane Austen) and take on the challenge of a modern issue combined with a writing style from the past.
When Dreams Go
(A Golden Shovel poem that borrows from “Dreams” by Langston Hughes)
(If you are unsure how to read a Golden Shovel- read the last word of each line)
On bitter nights I try to hold
Myself away from falling fast
Asleep that I may not go to
That frightful realm I call my dreams
I detest each visit there, for
I cannot trust in what or when
Forgetting they are only dreams
I fight to leave, but cannot go
They paint a dreadful, tortured life
That’s only sweet deliverance is
A lucid shadow that casts a
Pall on visions dark and barren
Abandoned, hopeless in this field
Dreams that leave your senses frozen
Only pray the terrors go with
Wakening like sun-melted snow
