Friday 5 September 2014

LAMPLIGHT AND LANDMINES:


Dim lamplight flames, where night moths meet,

Gathering in shadows, where their wings so beat,

Falling flighty dustings, upon the powdered beams,

Wings, legs, antennas, stitched by invisible seams,

Their bodies crashing, burnt, torn & so hotly singed,

Wings, legs, antennas, melt & become unhinged.

 

Street-lamps lure, the flitting black & old bats to dip,

Where insects gather & bend, toward night dew to sip,

Those of leathered wing, deep, black & so very dark,

Caressing sanity slowly, behind the gnarled oak bark,

Dawn cracks, embracing lamp & sunlight, striking blind,

Sunrise creeping softly, leaving night´s landmines behind.

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