Thursday, 3 June 2021

A Poem a Day (436): Make room

 
This one is about mushrooms pushing up through the soil. 


Make room
 
Treble cleft and honeyed,
mushrooms plague soil to rise,
unstifled and forever promising
never to sleep during night’s play.


We are as monks full captured,
quiet and forlorn in our hideaway,
a bid to scuttle the earth sideways
and wrestle the sun for ourselves.


But this is dusk, daylight scattered
and with it our deepest yearnings,
for an existential moon gaze
is what this twilight will bring us.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, June 3, 2021


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