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Starless Nights by olakan22: 9:18pm On Jun 25, 2017 |
STARLESS NIGHT The blue sky fly away Taking its time, not in haste The sun goes to sleep In a hole monstrously deep The darkness fill the earth Swallowing whole what light is left For tonight is a starless night The crickets chirp in fear From tiny holes their cuticles can’t bear The frogs croak in terror From ponds where dark water pours The cockerels lay awake Not daring on their belly to lay For the night is a starless night See the tears of wise old men Rich in tactics of life and death Young men drop down weak Their strength down their groins leak Great tributaries down the cheeks of infants flow As they watch their limbs refuse to grow At the same time their mothers paced like hunting dogs Wailing and tearing as they are engulfed in the dark fog On the starless night When the night is nigh, men often go to families Their souls they deceive to rest Deep in shallow seconds of fleeing joys But it will not be tonight For the world’s low has turned crest So men stay awake hoping for dawn As they pray to survive the starless night Men's hearts in pieces burst And their souls are disturbed The blades keep coming The turbulent they not sparing Men as they bleed to death looked up and found dark And beheld the dead stars The moon is lost For tonight is a starless night Creation waits for the night to pass The cockerels stand on their feet With the sound almost on their beaks Men perch on their stools Their finger nails dug in their hard palms Waiting for time to pass And for the sun to rise It shall happen soon The starless night shall be behind. 1 Like |
Re: Starless Nights by elfico(m): 6:45am On Jun 30, 2017 |
This poem is not just good, its excellent |
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