Lighting Call

Winter defines this stage,
this page, night descending
too early for my taste.

If I catch a falling star,
can I shed the excess
layers of this confinement

Follow animal impulses
to a sunnier clime, restore
exuberance of noble youth?

Passion persists, intelligence
in tact, just need a brighter
angle from which to reveal it.

(Lillian is hosting dVerse poetics tonight with the prompt: shed.  I am also linking up to Willow Poetry’s “What Do You See?” challenge: photo prompt; and Ragtag Community: angle; as well as Fandango’s: noble.)

 

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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

70 thoughts on “Lighting Call”

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  4. I love this …

    “If I catch a falling star,
    can I shed the excess
    layers of this confinement”

    I always wonder if we would have time too make decision what to do with it. Wish, dream.. consider and so on 🙂🙂💕

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  5. “If I catch a falling star,
    can I shed the excess
    layers of this confinement”

    Very beautiful poem, totally captivated by these lines 🙂

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  16. I like the way you describe winter with ‘night descending too early’, V.J. – that’s how I feel, although I have noticed it’s coming a little later every day. I also like the internal rhyme of ‘stage/page’ in the first stanza and the enjambment stretching the whimsical question over two stanzas.

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  20. Impressive how to worked the various prompts together. I really like the image and followed your poem visually … so startled to then realize you were also working in additional connections. Cleverly done! Your poem stands on its own quite nicely.

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  27. Perfectly written V.J. I love how you weaved in all the prompts while creating a visual with your words. Thank you.

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