The Life Of A Streetlamp Poem by Amera Andersen

The Life Of A Streetlamp

Rating: 5.0


The clock raised its hands in the dead of the night
and the street creatures fell into order.
Blackness fell back from the corner streetlight
as dark spaces between lost their border.
The clock dropped a hand one quarter ways down
and the memories of night were released.
The streetlamp shone bright like jewels in a crown
exposing an alley cat licking his feast.

The streetlamp so wise explained it this way:
“Behold the woman I bless with my glow,
she hides in the shadows far from display
and she, like others, thinks no one will know.”
The clock ticks on and the night disappears:
streetlamps stay silent embracing night fears.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Craig Turner 05 March 2010

i liked this very much, i do think you could lose a few syllables here and there to help the flow and it might be even better x

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