You've heard about the Monday Blues ❧✿❧ well this is Monday WRites ( musing on the definition here of rite, as any customary observance or practice eg the rite of afternoon tea ).
Welcome to Monday WRites #23, ❧✿❧ whats your mood today ❧✿❧ I invite you to link in with one of your WRites
SHADOW FIGURE
Extensive,
we make shadows,
not knowing the play of life upon us;
contrasting skies,
like warriors marking trenches,
to bury memories,
evoking left lovers behind,
slipping moons;
changing shape like play dough,
in the hands of children,
sensitive to the innocence,
of smiles and trusting,
that today is all there is,
of tomorrow's dream;
Curtailed,
in the volume of unspent eons,
basking in scars unfading,
still fresh,
ever fresh the dirt of millipedes,
shuffled in tiny bickerings,
of wavering patterns,
signalling the wearisome task,
that births new constellations;
flickering lights,
bright unseen meteors,
of processes traveling,
travailing universes,
existing on the fringe of,
mind shattering kaleidoscopes;
Eyeballed,
stars twinkle in response to,
programmed eternity;
already the dearth of answers,
filed in the to do,
folders of hard drive realities;
when night succumbs,
to daybreak twitterings;
only because a phase of,
sieved light filtered through
then the shadows dancing
on the wall of the puppeteer's dare
somersaulted into yesterday again
© gillena cox 2013 [ first published at Poem Hunter dot com]
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Will Link this to Tuesday Platform
I'm always pondering shadows. That first stanza is especially strong.
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So beautiful.........days tumbling one by one......
ReplyDeleteThanks for your appreciation Vandana
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Wonderful images!
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping in Rosemary
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I love the title of the poem and the way you explored your theme in each stanza. Excellent work.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kerry
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This is extraordinary work Gillena :D
ReplyDeleteWell penned!
Lots of love
Sanaa
happy you dropped in Sanaa
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Great treatment of the individual themes. Makes good reading Gillena!
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Thanks Hank
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I enjoyed your themes and the way you filled them out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by Debi
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Oh I just found you and love your little party. Are short stories allowed also? I'd love to join the fun.
ReplyDeleteSure Grsnthamy. You can link a short story to this
DeleteMonday moods Linky. Thanks for dropping by
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