Promptly 4 and 5

Oh Tropic Nights

Oh Tropic Nights

Oh tropic nights
when insect hum
and buzz and click
and creatures call
and wail and moan
a woven shroud
a lullaby
of warm enfolding sound

Oh tropic nights
of stars outspread
in myriad array
their shining hordes
unloosed and bright
on velvet skies
so far and vast
of darkest indigo.

Oh tropic nights
humidity
and sweat-soaked sheets
to turn and twist
in sleepless search
and fevered dreams
torment indeed
to fill the stifling hours.


Line count: 24
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 22 2023
Prompt: Stars.