- Non-Erotic Poetry
- A Long Shadow
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Click hereYou walk across the world and cast a shadow,
and hangs in haze and dreams the last—a shadow.
The heart and soul seek sky and bask in sunrise;
beneath the light and day has massed a shadow.
I wait in hope, wishing the will of someone
who still and silent stands aghast, a shadow.
Too long it is to long, threadbare years stretching—
in mind ever and holding fast a shadow.
Equinox, equinox, solstice to solstice:
thoughts keeping thoughts, and in the past a shadow.
- COMMENTS
unpredictablebijouover 15 years agothat I did not find the form particularly distracting is always the highest compliment in a case like this, with a truly strict form. Your lines are basically graceful and natural. Nicely done.
lorencinoover 15 years agoThe undeniable shadow of a past that has departed but continues to inform the present comes through so wistfully, so elegantly.
Anonymousover 15 years agoThis poem is mentioned in today's New Poem Review in the Poetry Feedback & Discussion forum. Thanks for the read!
WickedEveover 15 years agoThis is what I like -- there's an interesting poem inside the form. Lovely lines.
