As vivid dreams near
Beware of thoughts in the night
Morning will be bright
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According to several sources:
William Least Heat-Moon, aka William Lewis Trogdon (born August 27, 1939) is an American travel writer of English, Irish and Osage Nation ancestry. He is the author of a bestselling trilogy of topographical U.S. travel writing.
Blue Highways, spent 34 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 1982-83, is a chronicle of a three-month-long road trip that Least Heat Moon took throughout the United States in 1978 after losing his teaching job and separating from his first wife.
Along the journey, Trogdon re-examined his Osage roots and changed his name to that Indian name given by him at birth—William Least Heat Moon—not in rejection of his Anglo heritage, but rather as a celebration of both ancestries.
According to NNDB, Blue Highways is considered one of the critical works of highway literature in America.
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Image Credit
© rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea” , 2011
This week’s prompt
from
William Least Heat-Moon’s novel,
Blue Highways:
“Beware thoughts that come in the night”
Credits for background of William Least Heat-Moon
"On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea" 
lovely one. my thoughts in night are usually very useful, i regret not jotting them down.
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Me too … I think of some wonderful things as I drift off to sleep … but I am too far gone to pull myself up to make a note! I promise myself I will remember in the morning — but alas, it nearly always escapes me! Glad you visited ~~ 🙂
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I love your words of comfort to close out your brief warning. The ending on a positive note and the wonderful picture make a comforting feeling worthy of a great children’s book. Good job.
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Ahhh, thank you very much for your kind remarks! 🙂
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Haikuish and very insightful. Don’t need many words to say that. Superb.
http://henryclemmonspoet.blogspot.com/2011/06/beware-carry-on-tuesday.html
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Ahh, thanks, Henry! I am happy you stopped by!
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Night time frights quelled by the light of dawn. I love this.
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Thank you Judy for visiting. Hoping your are feeling better and better! 🙂
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nice haiku, love it.
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Thank you — I am glad you like it! Thank you for your visit!
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I love this, Becca, and in fact the older I get some of my dreams tend to be getting a bit stranger. Oh, well, never a dull moment…even when you are sleeping. Love the picture!
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Everything always looks brighter in the morning … but dreams can be quite revealing … if you remember them!! 🙂
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I really like where you took the poem from the prompt.
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I appreciate your visit! Thank you!
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I love William Least Heat Moon. This prompt gave birth to several poems I’ve encountered, and this haiku is among the best I’ve read. Becca, thank you for this treat. Amy
http://sharplittlepencil.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/anything-sweeter/
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I appreciate your comment very much, Amy! Thank you!
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Great haiku. The morning will be bright.
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Thank you, Andy!
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Morning thoughts generally ARE brighter than night thoughts. So well expressed.
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Many times we are just glad that it was only a dream 🙂
Love the last line, a wonderful haiku Becca
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Ahh, thank you! 🙂
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