Thursday, June 02, 2016

Thursday Poem - Questions Before Dark

Day ends, and before sleep
when the sky dies down, consider
your altered state: has this day
changed you? Are the corners
sharper or rounded off? Did you
live with death? Make decisions
that quieted? Find one clear word
that fit? At the sun's midpoint
did you notice a pitch of absence,
bewilderment that invites
the possible? What did you learn
from things you dropped and picked up
and dropped again? Did you set a straw
parallel to the river, let the flow
carry you downstream?

Jeanne Lohmann
(from The Light of Invisible Bodies)

3 comments:

Laura~Pretty Pix said...

Lovely softness here.
Delightful.

Mystic Meandering said...

"Did you set a straw parallel to the river, let the flow carry you downstream?" I love this line! I will carry the vision of this as I go about my day today... Thank you...

christinalfrutiger said...

This is my all time favorite photo of yours...so far! I just love it because that's my favorite place to be at twilight in the world. Sitting on a beautiful, old weathered dock, beside a lake watching the fading, changing light as the sun goes down. You've captured it beautifully!