Why Certain Chairs, uh, Rock

January 16, 2014January 10, 2016 / cksdays

I could not get to sleep,

I could not sleep, boo-hoo-hoo.

I could not get to sleep

so after night number two

I went to extremes

I dug out my old rocking chair

from storage in the extra room

I kinda keep old clothes there.

I pulled it out

to the middle of the living room

and wrapped up in blankets

hoping sleep would come soon.

Creakity-creak

it’s a rather old chair

Creakity-creak

rocking away my care.

Creakity-creak

am I asleep yet?

Creakity-creak

still awake I fret.

Creakity-creak

c’mon sleep

creakity-creak

bleepity-bleep.

Creakity-creak

I pray my soul to keep

creakity-creak

if I ever fall….

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7 thoughts on “Why Certain Chairs, uh, Rock”

rambling poet

January 16, 2014 at 7:06 am

Nice one.
In the Caribbean, that’s why there are so many Hammocks 😀
cksdays

January 16, 2014 at 7:30 am

Ah, lovely! Here in the Rocky Mtn desert we don’t have a lot of trees – sagebrush yes, trees no. It would be kind of hard to tie hammocks from sagebrush 🙂 Plus, we only have 3 months of pleasant outdoor weather a year. Guess I’ll have to stick with rocking chairs 😉
rambling poet

January 16, 2014 at 7:36 am

I just tried imagining someone tying a hammock to a sagebrush…. maybe a scene from a Mel Brooks movie 😀

There are actually some (maybe more than I think) houses that have those hammock’s tied inside 🙂 Rocking chairs are the standard though… we have two in our house… well, one outside (on the porch) and one inside 🙂
cksdays

January 16, 2014 at 9:45 pm

When I think of hammocks I think of lazy summer days…until my friend flips me and I end up on the ground trying to catch my breath 🙂
A rocking chair on a porch? That’s what every home needs!
rambling poet

January 17, 2014 at 4:13 am

🙂
SuzyWordmuser

February 15, 2014 at 12:52 pm

This sounds like one of my bad nights! I have a rocking chair too, but it’s in the bedroom and the computer is in the living room. The computer wins, I prefer to be lulled into sleep by something or other on there. Although sometimes it actually keeps me awake – that’s when the rocking chair comes in handy! 😀
cksdays

February 20, 2014 at 7:27 pm

This was a rather stressful week and it passed. I’m doing better now.
I can’t watch tv or use the computer at night or I’ll never get to sleep. Just a couple of days ago I put my phone on do not disturb between 10pm-7am because I received an email at 11 and I stayed up till after 2! So, no more. I’m trying to power down at 9:00 so that I can fall asleep quicker. Once I’m asleep I’m okay – it’s just getting there sometimes…