For today’s prompt, write a dark poem. Cave poems, poems at night, and no electricity poems–these are all appropriate for today’s prompt. Of course, dark has several other connotations as well. An underdog is often known as a dark horse, a villain may have a dark heart, and Batman is known as the Dark Knight. Heck, when I was little, I thought Darth Vader was Dark Vader.
Power Outage
The street lights were extinguished
like a candle after midnight mass,
so we couldn’t watch the snowfall
though I heard sleet skittering
across the crust of ice.
No chattering meteorologists
from the silent television.
No buzz of computer fans.
No whir of refrigerator motors.
No exhalation of furnace blowers.
No rumble of distant traffic.
Not even the scrape of a plow
to disturb our night.
I’ll listen to your dark curls
cuddle my chest as we warm
each other ‘neath the blankets
and await the return
of a postmodern age.
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
sleet skittering
across the crust of ice… New favorite word “skittering.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks the Scots and Norse for that word.
LikeLiked by 1 person
listen to dark curls cuddling – That is really cool. The photo perfectly accents the work too.
LikeLiked by 1 person
As soon as I saw that pic on the stock photo site, I knew that was what I should use.
LikeLike
beautifully painted..
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks. I thought it’d be more fun to write about the sounds of darkness than the sights.
LikeLike