Day by day
the shadows are dwindling,
assuming more realistic shapes,
like the ambitions of a man
in middle age.
The snow hardens underfoot.
I hear the first
mourning dove call of the year:
desire in a minor key.
Day by day
the shadows are dwindling,
assuming more realistic shapes,
like the ambitions of a man
in middle age.
The snow hardens underfoot.
I hear the first
mourning dove call of the year:
desire in a minor key.
Well, hopefully they won’t dwindle TOO much! I like the poem.
LOL. Thanks.
That last line. You’re on a roll with great last lines again. (Not sure what that augurs, if anything.)
It could mean I’m failing in my stated mission to make open-ended poems, poems that don’t click shut in the last line.