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For: Deathbed Poetry Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date: October 10, 2025

Deathbed Poetry: Emily Dickinson

“I must go in, the fog is rising.”
                                        ~Emily Dickinson

I must go in, the fog is rising,
outside my door the world is fading
and I won't see the sun arriving
to color morning sky awaiting.

It's been said life lasts an hour only,
days pass by as if a charcoal painting
left out in weather and so lonely,
leaving simple shadows in the waning.

Death does not kindly stop for me,
suddenly does it appear like night,
or perhaps like fog arising slowly~
and I must enter in to find the light.

The first lines in stanza two and three were inspired by Dickinson poems
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October 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
what a lovely poem about one of my favorite female poets. You captured her essence beautifully and I appreciate how you used her words in your own poem. Well penned! best wishes with this contest entry.
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