The Eeriness of All Hallow's Eve

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Open Poetry #23

The Eeriness of All Hallow's Eve

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Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2002-10-31 12:43 PM

The Eeriness of All Hallow’s Eve

Someone bought a Frigidaire
of giant-sized proportion
it’s captured up the universe
and conjured up a potion.

The frost is on the pumpkin
there’s no doubt about it,
yet there shall be no snowfall
for the sky is all sunlit.

It’s looking like a hot summer’s day
but the ‘hot’ has found escape;
and icy rooftops, puddles, too,
span the adjacent landscape.

More evidence today
that what one sees is not always true
the look of warm outside the panes
has found its truth in freezing you.

For the furnace is at work
it toils heavily
but the warm that it conjures up
has not found its way to me.

I think that I should come away
from this window on the world,
and curl up in my blanket
that’s been neatly, tightly furled.

Now I just thought I saw a moth
of an iridescent butterfly
pass horizontally past
my patio nearby.

It could not have been a leaf,
for a breeze does not blow,
so what on earth could it have been
pretending summer in its tow?

©October 31, 2002

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

the_loner_23
Member Ascendant

since 2002-06-08

Posts 5479
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

1 posted 2002-10-31 01:48 PM

Hauntingly good write.

Cold hands means a warm heart

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