April is National Poetry Month. Writer’s Digest has a Poem A Day challenge, which I’m going to participate in. A few of those poems will end up here. Check out the link if you want to try the challenge, too.
The challenge for the 6th is to write a poem about night.
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9:30 p.m. on a Saturday
Air slowly surrendering
warmth
hoarded from the day’s bright harsh sunshine
that faded a couple of hours ago
The sky is dark
where it’s not washed out
by bright towering streetlights
colorful neon signs
twinkling strands hung from trees
and the red-yellow-green dance of stoplights
Light spills from crowded restaurants
and flows after the laughter tumbling
from open bar doors
it dances down the streets with cell phones
and prowls from car headlights
searching
searching endlessly
for an open parking space
So much light and activity
people eating and drinking and talking
filling the darkness
But quiet spaces remain
between the lights and conversation
where pinpricks of light twinkle down
on the star-dusted city
