DM Babbit Poet Free verse

Darkness Creeps

For a moment, brief as it was
 there was light at dawn
but now
 the darkness begins to creep in
slow and methodic edging, along the horizon
 there -  far off in the distant
paler shades of gray grow as if night
 and the wind gusts wild, restless
teasing, tossing, taunting the trees
 as the temperature drops
and humidity rises, the haze becomes thick
 then rubs off steaming in the clouded sky
followed by flashes of light flickering in pulses
 glowing with quick short illumination
bound by claps of thunder echoes
 and then the rain falls, downpours
pouncing hard, quick, fast, steady with intensity
 like bubbling grease in the pan 
and the darkness takes hold
 creeping in the hidden shadows 
of the mid-afternoon June storm.

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Jacqueline R. Mendoza May 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM Hello DM, how r yah? well the Darkness Creeps usually is for children. I invite you to visit my poetrysoup page and maybe comment on some but only if u want. It is also to inform me that u visited because it's good for your soul.~Jac---> my Jackie was a bad girl and so that there's a Jac in girls, and its short for my name.