Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Sliver of Night


It only takes a drop or two;
a dab of silver and gray to highlight the sky,
and my mind is illuminated with poetic lines

A curtain, a blanket, No!
Only a sliver of night and I am made
fully alive by the sounds of a howling moon

I pray for highlighted clouds
to make the rhymes aloud, then lull me to sleep~
the sleep of midnight’s eternal shroud

First published by Sudden Denoument


Image by Robert Karkowski from Pixabay