While Poets Sleep
Muses stray, as darkness beguiles the light
While poets sleep there casts a shadowed pall
Enchanted prose now languishing in blight
Night’s spell has ways of vexing what has been
Verse once unbowed is now seduced to crawl
The baleful Nyx has cast her nightly spin
The poet’s lot - to reignite the flame
The life inscribed in daylights metered rays
Are listless words as gloaming’s curse has tamed
Exhort your pen dear bard and foray hence
Win back this forlorn script from night’s malaise
Restore the sculpted word to present tense
Muses stray, as darkness beguiles the light
The poet’s lot - to reignite the flame
Note – Nyx (Greek Goddess of the Night)
For Cornish Sonnet Contest – 16 Mar 2014
Copyright © David Mohn | Year Posted 2014
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