Different
'...the thorn in sharpened shade
weathers all loneliness.'
-Hart Crane
Branches scratch the sky
blanching the twilight
pale and grey,
the day is dying;
my way is dark and dismal,
the nightjar's distant cry
my only solace
as I wander washed
in reveries of you and wish
with all my heart
it could be different.
(Note: an exercise in alliteration and assonance...
short 'a,' long 'a,' long 'i,' short 'i,' short 'o' assonance.
'b,' 's,' 'd,' 'w' alliteration.
Poetry is music... similar sounds and a deliberate rhythm.)
Copyright © Keith Bickerstaffe | Year Posted 2008
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