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Premium MemberShadowland

the sun 
low in the sky
yearns for a leap into night
as shadows squeeze their way into bedrooms
like shapeless dragons
for children
cocooned to an early bed
staging thoughts like puppet plays
on a wall terrain
of mossy caverns or whispering vines
that never merge dreams smoothly
when children imagine the huff and puff of shadows
like creatures swimming in circles
overlapping at a patchwork distance
before the painted black of night
quiets the pull of imagination 
in the candy cane bend of sleep
Categories: shadowland, childhood, dream, imagination, night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShadowland

Not a whisper, nor a word, 
Just one day in the fall
A brief moment in time,
where that moment, interred,
is now kept, as my own
in a frame on the wall.

Stirring my soul,
in soft shades of charcoal,
that can't fade, or be dulled,
With devotion, ....it is mine, to recall

Black arches and veins,
mottled pallets of gray,
from the trees overhead
in soft fingerlings, ......exquisitely spread. 

To my depths,  I'm enthralled,
and without reason, it calls,  
all the breath from my lungs,.... uncontrolled

Now a season is mine,
whenever I pine,
to travel from spring, ....into fall


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From a Contest: "Black and White Film Photography"
3/5/15
Categories: shadowland, beautiful, beauty, nature, seasons,
Form: Verse


Premium MemberIn the Shadowland

In The Shadowland

In the Shadowland , where heartache and sorrow reign supreme,
 "darkness of pain" marches in ever gloomy fields
 with misery galloping and splashing in widely tragic streams
 blues stirring the worries to ever increase their yields!

Sadness sings it's stampeding herd of very desperate woes,
 "pangs of loss" dancing in the dark forests so very deep 
 stomping with glee all yet "untouched" fingers and toes
 where  solace, healing and recovery so soundly sleeps!

In the Shadowland, where loneliness and desperation screams,
 "evils of hate" invade and torment a ill-hurting mind
 shady little dark spirits cut away restful little dreams
 tiny blades slicing up everything so peaceful and kind!

Robert Lindley, 05-28-2014


This is a rewrite from a poem I wrote back in the 80's.
A bit shorter as rewritten and not an exact replication but
 my memory at 60 lags a tad. This was the results from having 
gone through a brutal divorce.
Categories: shadowland, deep, depression, pain, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme

Shadowland

Wandering in a pool of shadows
Lost my way a while back
Longing for my treasured meadows

Waves of thickened air
Color my bare skin, black
Wiping my mind clear

Not able to manifest 
All hope is bland
Sick and tired of this quest

All curiosity was wrong
This is my Shadowland
Can I really be gone?
Categories: shadowland, grief, spiritual,
Form: I do not know?

Shadowland

We enjoyed ourselves, 
We had a few laughs, 
You never knew this, 
But i love you, 

The day you left my tears began to come, 
I couldn't bear to see you're coffin shut, 
You weren't just my friend, 
You were my best friend, 

That night i saw you killed, 
Was a night like no other, 
I couldn't stand her taunting face, 

Now i write this alone, 
I hate this world, 
But now i will leave it in peace, 







I will join you in the shadowland
    We enjoyed ourselves, 
We had a few laughs, 
You never knew this, 
But i love you, 

The day you left my tears began to come, 
I couldn't bear to see you're coffin shut, 
You weren't just my friend, 
You were my best friend, 

That night i saw you killed, 
Was a night like no other, 
I couldn't stand her taunting face, 

Now i write this alone, 
I hate this world, 
But now i will leave it in peace, 







I will join you in the shadowland
Categories: shadowland, death, lost lovewrite, night,
Form: I do not know?


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