A Slow Death
…And you thought yesterday’s poem was bad? Sorry, but I seem to be on a bit of a writing bender. Hope this one’s a little more easy to digest! ^.^ (Also: I kinda cheated on today’s photo. It’s made of two layers, only one of which was taken today. forgive me? 
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The sun is dying
She casts her blood-red glow
Across the tidy buildings
And the people far below
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The sun is dying
She reaches out her rays
To touch the weeping trees
Holding steady in her gaze
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The sun is dying
She’s lifting up her light
To tell the moon she loves him,
To embrace the coming night.
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The sun is dying
She stretches out to hold
Every Earth-bound being
As she slips into the cold
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The sun is dying
Yet she calls out anew
For the Earth is dying
And we shall all die, too.
October 10th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Terrific poem Anna
October 11th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
awwwww. I am just, well awed! Loved it. Thoguht second stanza couldn’t be matched, but then the others just kept coming! fantastic!
Also, the pic taken through a wired-frame-cover-screen-thing? Makes it look like an old painting :-p.
October 12th, 2009 at 12:31 am
heh. the picture is, like I said, two layers.. one is of a sunset I took way back in February, from Dan’s car as we drove down Westbury rd, actually. the second is from an oil painting on a canvas that hangs in our passage. It’s a closeup shot of some brush strokes that make up an autumn-leaved tree! I just layered them an played around with opacity n stuff.
And, aw, thanks for the compliments. I re-read it and decided it’s horrible. but that’s okay! =P