Friday, April 27, 2012

Friday
April 27, 2012
Getting some good feedback on my poems... Unfortunately, it's only one person. Wish I would get more. I am on a site, but the critique is light. I guess I like more conversation about it with others who also writes poetry... just don't know how to find them.


By Darkness

We who choose to live by darkness
spend our nights hanging shadows on the walls,
creating curtains thick and gray to cover all the windows
so neither light of day or night can force itself upon us.

I’m grasping at thin threads of cobweb hovering above
my head,  they silently swing back and forth. The one bare
bulb that dully lights the narrow hallway also sways
like a hangman’s noose waiting for a neck.

The shag carpet licks at my sandals, my knees click a bit when
I walk. I took a fall last winter on the black-ice in the parking lot.
I don’t think about it much these days. Come to think,
I do not think at all. I’m way too busy doing nothing.

We who choose to live in darkness
sleep without a thought for dreaming.
We seldom fantasize. We merely shut our eyes
and pray the monsters never find us.
                                                                        rrw 4-26-12


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