Darkness

Eclipse – day becomes night

nature goes silent

people stand in

 wonder

 

this darkness

has the power to stop us,

make us consider forces beyond

 

We are reminded

we are part of something

greater

than our society,

our technology

 

In the dark we are one

Blaze Quadrille - NaPoWriMo #29

You wax

I wane

 

your ecstasy

is my pain

 

my loss

is your gain

 

and your ease

becomes my strain

 

My silence

your phrase

 

you  curse

while I praise

 

Your clarity

is my haze

 

your map

my maze

 

and my ashes

ignite your blaze

The writing prompt from dVerse is a quadrille.  Today, your 44 word poem must contain the word “blaze” or a derivative.

Over Time

I make these plans

and sometimes they work out

but sometimes…

well, it would be interesting

to eavesdrop on my self

five years ago, or fifteen, or fifty

to hear the things

I thought were

so important

then turn to

my worries of today

This is a quadrille, for dVerse Poets' Pub where Kim has asked us for 44 words, exactly, that include some form of "eavesdropping."