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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/917999-An-Eclipse-Is-a-Passing-Thing----BW-Uplifting-Poetry
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2088946
A folder for my writing August 2017 & July 2016
#917999 added August 20, 2017 at 2:59pm
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An Eclipse Is a Passing Thing -- B&W Uplifting Poetry
186 words – 34 lines
Free Verse


When the eclipse with unflappable silence
plunges along the inroads of the city
with ancient walls
and night falls on day and orbs obscure
the living in penumbral shadows,
I shall not dread the dark.
but watch it like the earthling that I am.

for an eclipse is a passing thing
it is just the sun trying to collect
the debt owed to it
by inflating the moon.
And the dark? Nothing to fear…
As dark as are the nights,
they produce my dreams
with subtle signs to mean
they’ll turn true to rejuvenate
anew my faith
in the everlasting light.

An eclipse sets fire to my veins
and I feel the burning
since in those veins flow
the blood of a Phoenix curling
around the fruit of knowledge
to ascend over the ashes
And what if I stumble or fall?
Nothing to fear, I shall still fly
to search the skies once more
while spitting embers
because a fall is an excuse,
eclipse or not.

Thus, in cosmic perspective,
that fall in the dark I welcome,
for if I fall
only then I may soar.

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Prompt: An Eclipse is a passing thing.
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