Night Dwellers

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Night time 
The darkest realm
The nocturnal dwellers
Scarcely aware of the coming
Sunlight

Morning
A place by night dwellers eschewed
They prepare for their sleep
In the dawn hour’s
brightness

Night time
The darkest realm
The nocturnal dwellers
Unaware of the coming sun
Spread wings

Unknown
Is the bright times of the daylight
For they in darkness rest
At the sunrise
They sleep

Padre

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Colleen’s syllabic challenge this week is to write using a poem by Sue Vincent as our theme.  I have chosen the line: “sun rises unseen” as my prompt.  I have used a mirrored mirrored cinquain (if that is a thing) as my form.

Evening: A Mirror Cinquain

Image Credit: © Ritu Bhathal

 

Evening
Houselights appear
Baths done, pajamas on
Children to be soon tucked in bed
Quiet

Moment
Drink before the television
School lunches still to pack
Doors checked -secured
Goodnight

A mirror cinquain is a syllabic poem form which consists of a  2/4/6/8/2 cinquain poem followed by a 2/8/6/4/2 reverse cinquain.

Composed for Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 165 #PhotoPrompt

 

Padre