NaPoWriMo 2023

Day 5

Prompt

begin by reading Charles Simic`s poem "The Melon" It would be easy to call the poem dark, but as they say, if your didn`t have darkness you wouldn`t know what light is or vice versa.  Challenge is to write a poem involving vice versa within the poem.

The Torch

Darkness wrapped around my world

eerie silence hiding everything in sight

odd sounds causing the heart to flutter

black shadows surround me in the night

yet seen through a shaft of bright light

there`s a small segment of the landscape

held in my hand, pinpointing my route

there`s hope I`ll maneuver towards  escape

torch light through darkness under the sky

nature`s glimpsed momentarily

then plunging the world back into blackness

for both only survive temporarily.

(C) Lissie`s Poems 2023