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Michael
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0 posted 2011-11-09 03:36 PM



Night Trip


Why does the world sleep at night,
So peaceful and serene?
I walk with her in the starlight,
Silence, she is my queen.

And so I search the shadowed street,
Behold, if but to share
Glass slippers for the dancing feet
Of Misery and Despair.

The melody, a delightful charm,
Wordless, I hum the tune…
The fireflies sounding the alarm
Of the aquatic moon.

The Fates by three, taking exception,
Cut short the living thread…
A notion lost to its own inception,
I walk amongst the living, dead.

And still the world sleeps and sleeps,
As I greet the starlit sky.
Where every light of heaven weeps
That none else herald their cry.


Michael Anderson


As, leaving some grand waterfall,
We, lingering, list its roar-
So memory will hallow all
We've known but know no more.

Abraham Lincoln

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JL
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1 posted 2011-11-09 03:50 PM


"And still the world sleeps and sleeps,
As I greet the starlit sky.
Where every light of heaven weeps
That none else herald their cry."

Maybe there are others awake as well, just silent and holding their breath.

Excellent write Michael, very interesting.

JL

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Maranatha!

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2 posted 2011-11-09 03:56 PM


Oh my young man...
you make dark so temptingly
beautiful,
that I would write of her,
were she to stir from your side.




JerryPat2
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3 posted 2011-11-09 06:01 PM


You have the gist of the dark, as Sunshine has noted. I too have equated you with that other poet who walked in the gloom and dark . . . Poe.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways ~*~

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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4 posted 2011-11-10 06:08 AM


great writing Michael... I'm looking out my window now at the night sky in fact... nice to read you.

Bisous
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5 posted 2011-11-10 10:24 AM


the sweet sound of silence, and walking with her in night...you are soooooo good!

Michael
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6 posted 2011-11-10 01:04 PM


JL, Mayhap, but I have no other way of coaxing them out.

K., Alas, I believe she is my lifelong companion.  On the brighter side, I do believe she will outlive me – I’ll try not to use her all up in the meantime.

JP, that’s quite a compliment… thank you.

Roniece, I hope you have a good view of the stars where you live.  I was in the mountains when I wrote this… not in the smog infested city I live in.  The view up there was spectacular.

Dixie, Thank you so much.


Michael

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7 posted 2011-11-10 02:58 PM


Glass slippers for the dancing feet
Of Misery and Despair.

The melody, a delightful charm,
Wordless, I hum the tune…
The fireflies sounding the alarm
Of the aquatic moon.

You give Silence voice... and she sings sweetly for her consort. *S*

Gorgeous images captured in exquisite rhyme... I love every line of it! *S*

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8 posted 2011-11-11 05:34 AM


enjoyed this piece very much

bernie

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9 posted 2011-11-11 05:43 AM


Most beautifully expressed, dear Michael! When the night wraps its cape around us our senses become sharper ...

Margherita

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