The poem below is from a challenge that Tracey Hardie spoke about regarding specific lines being used if you want the lines let me know and I will post them
Do you like it? The smell of fear as it winds its Never-ending, cycle like A Wanton wanderer collecting potions To embellish the spellbound dream
Skies darken and the night settles down Bringing a mist of contemplation fogging Force and focus. Leaving you to question The fictions of probability
Visions of ego’s misalignments Nurtured through the night Paint a canvas of revenge It makes no difference if it’s sweet or hot Justice has no such measure
Life is a rhythm, which the violin hears as I bow with calloused fingers mimicking the chords of disillusion
A Crescent moon smiles down on my tree of life littered With millions of scarlet leaves telling me The Fall is here No need to jump
I reach for good ole Jack D and toast memories I want to douse
Down the hatch
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Reviews of "When Shadows Cast More Than Light"
Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on December 24, 2005
"...Life is a rhythm,
which the violin hears as I bow
with calloused fingers
mimicking the chords of disillusion ..."
Walter .. all I can say is that was some challenge.. and you inspired me to write it when shared your poem and it make it look so easy... (pass me a drink..)
In a post-coup America, an Illinois farm boy is drawn into the resistance by his brother's death. Captured, he is given a choice: betray his friends, or the girl he loves will be lobotomized.
which the violin hears as I bow
with calloused fingers
mimicking the chords of disillusion ..."
Some super lines there, Walter...well done.
like the way you pulled it all together. LOVE the whole
openning stanza, it is enchanting!
Love Tinka
"When Shadows Cast More Than Light" symbolism abounds and an
outstanding composition is delivered.
Long healthy creative life, Poet!
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
3&4 great verses!Easy on what used to be my fav...Jack D!;-)
Love,
Eileen