sombre night
[Poet’s Note : A SIGNATURE POEM : 2026
PUBLISHED: Edge of Humanity Poetry Anthology
Magazine: Auguste 26 ]
Second Placement
Poetry Soup Contest
May ‘26
Sponsor: Anoucheka G.
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dark silent night
crawling ludicrously slowly
a slug across cold tiles
umbra unfolds before embracing naked skin
an observant thief with black socks
whose holes steal my thoughts
as they slither white sheets
the more he steals the faster they come
round and round
a big wheel at fun fair
high they dangle at an angle
will pitch rolling eyes catch them tumbling ?
cathartic they swirl
then temporarily stop
listening to night raindrops
kissing corrugated roof
dripping sweat
a mongrel barks agitated
received no marrow bone in his bowl
fire eating amber-gold chimera
chained both her wrist and mind
as black cotton catsuit
jigsaw edited shopping ailes
….. raw silent night processing thoughts
a silver Volvo manifested like a manifesto
in Cabral’s war journals
when he tried to free a corner of Africa
sketched guarded car between his poetry lines
in sombre silent night fish moths crawl
children hunger for one wheat roll
without yeast and a dab of strawberry jam
stomachs rumbling across Palestinian fields
a jet flies velvet sky
knows not limitless of sleeplessness
sequins on wall tapestry glitter old age
like sequences of novellas read then analysed
for untied knots in buried psyches of
would be writers or neurotic drama queens
sit sullen night on cold dusty sill
raw like a snake mackerel just caught
waiting to be slit with long silver blade
a catastrophic tower melts in far off furnace
blackness dissected in splinters
pupils dilated as ophthalmologist
held her microscope
to peer at cataracts on lenses
cutaneous silent night
crawls ludicrously
slowly s l o w l y
as sinister cat jumps
her raw paws across dimensions
of my skull I see scribbled on coal sky
dog still barking…whilst scriptures sing opal songs
s l o w l y
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