
Welcome to the Décima Poetry Challenge. Each week we’ll be attempting a Décima, also known as an Espinela, poem.
If you don’t know how to write a Décima, click HERE to go to a post on How to Write an Espinela or Décima Poem.
You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt .Ebb and Flow and Sleep.
The two challenges are separate but can be combined if we choose to do so.

Tides of Madness
The tides of madness ebb and flow
Restlessness only calmed by sleep.
The waking hours make me weep.
Dark seasons like days of shadow.
Seeds of darkling around me grow.
Fears inside me grow and recede.
Monsters use my terror as feed.
Madness has me held as captive.
Rise and fall, trapped, no more to give.
Madness eats my soul and I bleed
The above painting is work of Dorothea Tanning it is called The Madness of Doors.
Nov 18, 2020 @ 15:39:02
There’s something really disquieting about so many open doors.
Nov 18, 2020 @ 18:02:01
Yes indeed it’s a very interesting, in a terrifying way, painting.
Nov 18, 2020 @ 19:40:13
Creepy.
Nov 18, 2020 @ 15:59:46
Wonderful!
Nov 18, 2020 @ 16:47:06
Thank you it was a really stretch 💜
Nov 18, 2020 @ 16:50:29
This is very powerful, Willow. Well done.
Nov 18, 2020 @ 18:02:40
Thank you Robbie 💜
Nov 18, 2020 @ 17:09:02
Well done, Sis!
Nov 18, 2020 @ 16:46:29
Thank you Sis 💜
Nov 18, 2020 @ 21:25:17
I like the description of the monsters as feeding on terror.
Nov 18, 2020 @ 22:11:46
They do don’t they 💜
Nov 19, 2020 @ 16:21:13
Wow! A very apt description of madness i would say. disturbing!
Nov 19, 2020 @ 16:30:51
Thank you Kat, that was the reaction I was looking for 💜
Nov 19, 2020 @ 16:59:57
🙂
Nov 25, 2020 @ 13:26:28
Thank you Ron 💜