Today is National Poetry day here in the UK and this year, the theme is Light.
It’s been a long time since I shared a full poem with you all so here’s one I originally began back in November 2011. Iit’s the opposite of the theme really, but the closest I could find quickly!
I last worked on it in June 2012 so it may get a light dust over but I’m pretty happy with it. It’s about me sitting in my lounge working on the computer and being too lazy to get up and turn the lights on – you really can make a poem about anything 🙂
I hope you enjoy it.
Light, Left off
It’s darkly night: the laptop glow falls onto
Fingertips painted like papal robes.
Open curtains show a shadow world
Where distant windows light up,
Like animal eyes on the side of the road:
Watching, and waiting, for a moment to pass.
A streetlamp I can’t see appears,
Refracted, on the rain-stained glass,
And car doors shut – the sound, a full stop
On the working day. To the rear,
The garden is a black hole, the darkness
Eating the room around me
And bringing with it November’s chill to,
Snakelike, twine around my body.
Isolated on this island of cold light, I
Feel the draw to the otherworld;
So, I claim a blanket, turn off the screen, and sit.
Become another secret in the unseen world.
Happy National Poetry day, everyone!
Becoming a writer 
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