Night Creatures

By skinner_jennifer

Tue, 18 Feb 2020
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Imagine! If you will walls of rock

Silhouettes roused from sleeping,

Attentive, downward swooping,

How curious strange screeching,

 

Hanging in abandoned world

Then out of mouth flying high,

Senses heightened...air so still

Sun sets low over valley and hill,

 

Bodies now committed hurry on

Weave between limbs so strong,

Exploding into curtain of darkness

Catching insects on horizon's breath,

 

I too would like to trip this night

Lifting head to exciting heights,

Understand...feel stark empathy

With these creatures on the wing.

 

Trigger in motion imagination,

Activate my mind to anticipate

Sound waves of a different kind;

A journey about courage and faith,

 

I've dared boldness writing verses

Drifting from one poem to another,

Attacked by hazy shadows closing in

Leaving words to come out all wrong,

 

At night pen will fly across blank page

In sink with darkness and candlelight,

When instinct glows brighter like our

Night friend the bat by full moonlight.

 

 

Picture by pixabay free images.

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Comments

Submitted by onemorething on

I do love bats. Such strange creatures. Love your images of 'exploding into a curtain of darkness' and 'catching insects on the horizon's breath'. :)

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Thank you so much for reading and lovely comment onemorething.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I love those lines too! Also love the thought of a page being like the night sky and your thoughts being like moths your pen is trying to catch! You find such magic in the idea of writing!

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Thanks for the comment Di,

I really enjoyed spending time on this poem and it was a pleasure to know you enjoyed reading..

Jenny.