Song of Contrasts

Song of Contrasts

Behind me

the sun is a blazing fire

casting its yellow glow

across autumn’s golden grasses

through the elm’s gnarled limbs

asking for evening birdsong,

asking for a lullaby of calm, 

lulling the day’s creatures into sleep 

before night’s nocturnals creep

and moonshine shapes soft shadows,

the sunshine cedes ’til morn’.

Ahead of me

aluminum wrapped steel wires

are thin webs of sheathed lightning

flowing for miles and miles and miles

held by parallel poles repeated

in evenly spaced spans over which

the wind weaves and leaves a hum,

a hum of eerie, uneven moans 

crying for escape to warm the homes

the setting sun leaves cold beneath the web, 

below the boundless blue sky.

Sunset’s melody-

soft lullaby sung by birds,

muffled hum of wind

that wefts wires of sheathed lightning-

songs merged of man and nature.

#writeout

Sheri Edwards

Photography/Poetry/Contrast Poem

10.17.24

Today’s  #writeout Get outside and write poetry for the planet —Notice the contrasts around you with Amy Hirzel #nationalwritingproject

#nationalparkservice

#clmooc  #poetry #poetry24 #contrast #contrastpoetry

for more info:

https://whatelse.edublogs.org/2024/10/17/writeout-song-of-contrasts/

https://sheri42.net/2024/10/17/writeout-song-of-contrasts/

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