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Two Minutes to Midnight
by Karen Hecht Springer → (All Poetry by Karen Hecht Springer)
Tuesday, September 24, 2019    Rated "G" by the Author.
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This poem was inspired by the Doomsday Clock.

Two Minutes to Midnight

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Two minutes to midnight

The moon cowers behind an onyx vortex

Where worlds were born, flames ignited, extinguished,

Smoldering to silence before protest could even begin.

 

The ring on his left hand glistens

As he reads the inscription once more

And sardonic laughter fills the smoke haze.

 

He’ll choose where he goes from here.

Time suspends in jagged frozen lines.

For now, he stays in elective purgatory,

Two minutes to midnight.

 

 
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 Reviews of "Two Minutes to Midnight"
Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on August 27, 2020
You are a lot to take in, and you are quickly becoming one of my favorite writes.
Reviewed by Jane Noponen Perinacci
Reviewed on October 5, 2019
Your words come together to grace the reader with thoughts and imaginations. I love it!

Love ya!

Jane
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 24, 2019
The ultimate villain. Let us hope he/she does not exist except in fiction.

Ron
Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on September 24, 2019
We seem to be on the same wavelength. My poem today is When the Clock Strikes Thirteen. Time on our minds. . . !
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