This Poem was Submitted By: Mell W. Morris On Date: 2002-10-06 18:51:53 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Opacities Of Evening Air

The hush of evening air stilled by the slippage of the sun: slow and easy the segue of daylight to dark, as easy as our slide to stark dissolution. The rataplan of rain adds rhythm to the quiet and droplets silver in the air as night nuances its presence. Twilight tenders the trope that the world comes to each in unique and variant ways so every mote is not noted the same. A mot borne by the twilight breeze says that we must shed our leaves as the trees because remaining whole occludes transfinite magnitude of soul. We are meant to be bent and renewed, not weaned from earth without gleaning a glow of her meaning. We must not fall like leaves for serene sleeping or hoarding moonlight but for sprouting new growth and touting all we have learned in our brief term here. We fare well if we eschew the slue to ruin and the slippery slicks to Styx. Then we may share our "new" by song or rhyme to those caring to prolong the time of knowing and growing with the view.

Copyright © October 2002 Mell W. Morris

Additional Notes:
Inspired by the poetry of Hart Crane.


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