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Our Extra Hour
by Kathleen Wilsonwe're both awake while others sleep
we turn this hour to poetry...
turn each minute and turn it deep
content to let the poets sleep...
turn it to the sleeping mind
where wakened imagery unwinds
stir it with a poets pen
tease it with a stroke of zen
a flash of wing this gleam of light
dispels the wordless depths of night
where starry skies fall on the page
and fairy dust is all the rage
our passionate rhyme is due to sun
absorbing dark the day turned two to one
11/04/2007 Author's Note: This piece is a spontaneous collab with JD Clay.
It began with a light poetic note from me to JD early this morning.
I had decided an hour more poetry was better than an hour more sleep.
He was here too. He responded in kind
and the verses took shape at intervals this morning.
The couplets begin with my initial note, and alternate between us
concluding with my last.
Posted on 11/05/2007
Copyright © 2024 Kathleen Wilson
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 11/05/07 at 03:40 AM Kathy, you and JD make great words together! I like this so much. It's cheerful and has a nice rhythm and rhyme to it. Nice to start the morning with, but unfortunately, I didn't read it until the night.
~Chelle~ |
| Posted by Kyle Anne Kish on 11/05/07 at 04:53 AM Kathy, as always, this is superb! You and Jadi did a wonderful job and I'm feeling the poetry. Thanks for sharing this. |
| Posted by Maria Massarella on 11/06/07 at 10:10 AM I can so relate to the extra hours of poetry and less of sleep ... am also touched by the author's note and would say to Kathleen: 'welcome to JD' ...*m.a |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 11/09/07 at 03:05 PM Great to see that not only farmers take advantage of that extra hour. Cool poem guys! |
| Posted by Bruce W Niedt on 11/09/07 at 05:22 PM And to think I spent my extra hour sleeping! This is delightful.... d:-) |
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