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nether light

by Peter Humphreys

I lie here
in this nether light
'twixt day and night
n'er sound nor sight
can bother me
as in my reverie of delight
I conjure images of flight
and soar the open searing sky
from dawn to dusk
and night to light
a never netherland
of sights and sounds
and wonders bright
'bove cities bleak
through skyscapes vast
cross bog and mellow meadows sweet
I fly in my mind's eye
and see an empty beach
footstepped by two
and there land to feel
you sway beneath the dunes
where once we lay
to see the sun asetting
O take me there
where once I grew
and knowing nothing
there I knew
the nether light
'fore dawning

04/13/2009

Posted on 04/12/2009
Copyright © 2024 Peter Humphreys

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Clara Mae Gregory on 04/13/09 at 12:03 AM

This is going in my favorites. I love this poem, Peter....it is so refreshing to read and it takes me to that place so soothing.Thank you for creating this wonderful piece. ;)

Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 04/13/09 at 12:16 AM

A really nice, casual piece of work. Well done, sir.

Posted by Rhiannon Jones on 04/13/09 at 02:19 AM

As I began to read this, I thought of the glossy illustrated pages of poetry books from childhood (and Robert Louis Stevenson in particular). Then the poem took an "adult" turn, and that seemed just right, too. Very nice, Peter.

Posted by Tony Young on 04/13/09 at 07:06 AM

This one goes straight into my dream diary, needs to be a little longer though Peter, say.......all night. Lovely piece

Posted by Sandy M. Humphrey on 04/14/09 at 05:37 PM

I am adding to my Fav's, this one lulls, rocks, glides me to a gentler place and I love the word choice, the rhyme, the feel of this poem. It is great to read you again and to be taken someplace so pleasant with this poem. smh

Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 04/14/09 at 06:56 PM

Spot on, Peter....this is a true stand-out. I'm enjoying multiple readings here, and will save this to my favs! Thanks.

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 04/15/09 at 04:12 AM

A most inviting place, this netherland. Thank you, Peter.

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 04/16/09 at 03:03 PM

Quite the "out of body" experience Peter; very well described and inspirational in its own right. Congrats on hitting No. 1. Adds to favourites.

Posted by Charlie Morgan on 04/17/09 at 01:34 PM

...peter, i had to keep changing. once i was me, then a bird o' prey-soaring/scouring[w/keen eyesight], then i'm on the beach living melife and i'm viewing it from above...lovely lilt of life in this one...revealing of a man's search for meaniing and finding it--in simplicity.

Posted by Tony Whitaker on 04/18/09 at 03:42 AM

Takes me back to times of my youth when I would lie in the fields outside our home in North Carolina and I would stare up at the sky at twilight and dream a little dream... Wonderful.

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