Tag: #Shadows
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Long Grass… #Poetry
Playing inside the long grass Happy, safe, childhood free of pain In my family’s hands I grew Leaving home, my first pain Arrives, concealed in sweetness Dad kissed my cheek, waved me on Education, part of the plan Later, life grew strange Pushed by my peers Hell was raised In pain, loss of innocence Away…
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Sanity Reclaimed… #Poetry
I used to think living on my own was fine then the shadows moved in followed by voices, they want me out they say the house is theirs time to turn the tables I threw flour in the air The shadows vanished The voices remained They whisper in the peeling wallpaper Through the cracks in…
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Shadows… #Poetry
Dark half entities Day or night, reach across the land. Breaking away from their hosts Elongated, misshapen forms Forests, great monuments. We too have our own half-life Following where we go Bending its shape to the landscape Stretching along walls, leading the way Searching along the River Thames Playing with the water Dancing with the…
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Eugi’s Causerie ~ Challenge ~ Shadows ~#Poetry
Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Shadows – Nov. 18, 2021 Morning shadows dance across the fields Like children playing Evening shadows lengthen Giants disturbing time Trying to make space to linger Some, wishing they were nothing Not dust to blow away with the wind No light can cast them out They search for a place to…
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Do they still live here?
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My tv controls are beside me on my side tableEvery now and then, they crackleAs though someone is handling itThe phone too, makes the same noiseToday I had the tv controls beside me on the couchThere it goes again, someone touching it.I got to wondering if the previous occupants areStill living here with me and…
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Who Are You? #Poetry
Who are you? I hear the voice, as if someone walks one step behind meThe words unformed, the sound of an angry bee caught in a webI turn, face the empty streetKeeping my voice low, I ask, who are you?“I am your shadow, here inside youWhere no light shines.Most of your life you have taken…