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Shift Change

Shift Change another day slides obliquely into dusk clouds yawning in a graying pall darkness peeks from beneath a sulfurous moon eyeing its fleeing prey ©1/18/2018 submitted to MIDDLE JAN STANDARD CONTEST sponsor – Brian Stand

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Line Gauthier

Date: 4/15/2018 10:41:00 PM

Beautiful, John. I've never tried this form. Congrats on your gold medal finish with this gem.

Janice Canerdy

Date: 1/22/2018 9:35:00 PM

Congrats on your well-deserved win, John! Janice

Sandra Haight

Date: 1/22/2018 7:32:00 PM

Wonderful imagery in your poem, John! Congratulations on your win! Sandra

Agnes Krampe

Date: 1/22/2018 5:44:00 PM

Love the imagery in your poem, John! Congrats on your win.

John Lawless

Date: 1/20/2018 5:27:00 PM

Leanne, got a nice chuckle from your interweaving of lines from our poems. Thanks for stopping by to comment.

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton

Date: 1/19/2018 9:24:00 PM

"darkness peeks from beneath a sulfurous moon eyeing its fleeing prey"...camera on cherrypicker, pans downward slowly over an enchanted wood, somewhere outside Athens, " 'tis the foxing hour in Lost Love Woods"

John Lawless
Date: 1/20/2018 5:28:00 PM

Leanne, I posted by reply in the wrong box.....

Maureen Mcgreavy

Date: 1/18/2018 9:12:00 PM

I was half way through this hoping you had entered it for contest, lapping up your rich language. Word perfect beautiful ink. xomo

John Lawless
Date: 1/19/2018 6:59:00 AM

Thanks for stopping by to read and comment Maureen. Appreciate the kind words.