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Night and Day; At Dead of Night

On a whim, I wanted to try an acrostic poem on ‘night’ and ‘day’. I’ve added another offering from

As Day Begins … On wind swept morning sun and mountains crest together as flailing trees flow inside one another

Impostor cloud, draw back your dark affront, your dreary dull countenance, and let that sky, that cradle of eternal beyond,

I fall to the wisdom of day’s surrender, and sigh with a warm release, as shattered thoughts and woes expire,

How lethal were the arrows of emotions When the amorous glimpse was the fatal blade And daggers of thy eyes

Day folds into a small dark box, filed onto shelves of past’s dim recounting, and what light beheld a heart,

The sun woke with a bite, an ominous, dull rage, seeping quietly into flesh, announcing a harsh and errant day,

The last shards of light splayed out like a fan on the horizon, titillating the clouds with golden edges, and

The Grace of Reprieve… Sun nods to a vast open sky, free from cloud and blight, as slowly it stands

The Many Faces of Day The sombre morning hums a maudlin song, as burdened clouds hang low, having swallowed

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