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Stirring
by M. Andrew Sprong → (All Poetry by M. Andrew Sprong)
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There is no peace upon the bed
That lies beneath the stones.
There is no silence in the pit
That traps my soggy bones.

I won’t come clawing into light,
Nor will I haunt the moor.
I’ll only be a memory –
a scribble on the score.

The fox, she barks at shadows gone,
of branches in the night.
But I will not be stirring there.
My fate I will not fight.

The owl hoots a scolding call
That stills the cricket’s din.
The noises in this netherworld
Resume their force within.

The worm and mouse and mole are here,
Beneath the shifted loam.
The skunk has carved a burrow now,
And made my coffin home.

I await a future judgment day,
For all the wrong I’ve done.
I cannot hold with any pride,
A victory which I’ve won.

Timeless, plays the rustling score
Of birth and life and death.
Now to fall asleep again,
A slumber without breath.


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 Reviews of "Stirring"
Reviewed by John DeDakis
Reviewed on September 25, 2009
Lots of vivid details here.... and a matter-of-fact acceptance of the inevitable. Very creative.

Reviewed by Gianetta Ellis (Reader)
Reviewed on September 15, 2009
My favorite of those of yours I've read thus far. This is thoughtful and deeply personal in substance. You have achieved a rhyming scheme that feels very natural and unforced. The poem exudes "night" to me somehow - that feeling of all that is beyond simple darkness. While you write of death, there is much life on the periphery of your subject. There is a feeling of "continuation", though I normally think of death as a step toward "transformation." Very nicely written; you will affect readers with this one.


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