Walking along, another dusty town
General store, Hardware outlet, an old Church
but no one is around, it's sunset
.
In the distance, a bulbuous gleam
upon the horizon, below encroaching twilight
the stars reflect off a steeple,
one likening to Buffalo's Bank, golden
Romanesque
.
The soft luminescence of evening wraps me,
warm and welcoming, I find
an old stone wall, moss enshrined;
inviting respite from the journey
a graveyard twice blessed
.
Can't read the graves in the darken night,
too worn by the rigors of time,
so I sit and smoke a cigarette
in a gazebo composed of plant life,
the living rise from stone in testament
.
Poe, my Poe, blinking bright;
a breathing burst of jade to light
my way between dearly deceased,
you afford grand meaning to this sight
in being little things now earth ascendant
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Reviews of "Ohio Sunset"
Reviewed by ya mama (Reader)
Reviewed on December 16, 2003
i think sunset over lake erie is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen. probably because it is a marriage between god's greatest glory (sun and great body of water) and man's humble ugliness (factories, rundown buildings, trash, concrete everything)
though your poem is from another view, it is all still there. wonderfully done.
i am from ohio, too (born in mansfield, but raised in ontario; now live in tx); had to check this poem out when i saw the title! and i am glad i did; this is wonderful stuff! (((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in tx. (but originally from ohio!), karen lynn. :D
Reviewed by Floria Kelderhouse (Reader)
Reviewed on December 13, 2003
Tyler...how I enjoyed reading this with my coffee this morning...and ahhh...yes I adore Poe....wonderful writing...have a great holiday friend...floria
though your poem is from another view, it is all still there. wonderfully done.
another fellow buckeye here, now living in texas
siggghhhhhhh this brings back many pleasant memories of my youth in ohio--thanks for the memory jog
well done--beautiful write
(((HUGS))) and love,
karla. :)
I like this!... Well-done indeed!
Sandie Angel a.k.a. May Lu :o)
Thanks.
Jill
It all works together.
Put myself into it.