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Long winter's night

Vampires are out. The night is ice.
This long winter's night 
Hasn't rested me quite.

I must write 
But about what I can't think.
Just that I've used up the horse 

I've hoped will carry me 
Like the Lady out of my reach.
A beach not far away,

Waves crashing,
Moon blackened and cinders hide my view.

It doesn't come easily 
Escaping the hope someone might 
Rescue you.

Outside trees make a sort of white 
Noise.
They're a suburban menace 

Disturbing me from my trance.
It's not enough to understand you're a man.
It's how far back in words 

You wish to go.
Why not say I'm an animal?
It's not enough if you're a woman.

The world demands more than 
There's likely to give.

But the vampires outside 
Stir in the dead of night.
So I reside 

To giving life my best.

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Shirley Harrison

Pretty damn magnificent poetry, I can always get the perfect emotions from each line, I would like to throw this at you dear Rory......
when there is no light around us we must begin to think and believe  maybe we are the light that is  around the dark.

Superb, I cannot choose a favourite line or stanza but the first one is definitely up there. 🌹 Ps wonderful title 

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Rory McGinlay

Would you believe, the title came first with this one, it doesn't always? Then, scrunch goes the first try. What I got was all on the second go, though. Cheers

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Shirley Harrison

Wow, that's amazing and often something that happens to me, inspiration at its finest. 🌹 

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Jac Fables

We are having snow on the mountains in the heart of winter. A Nice Write.

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Marion

I like where these thoughts take me
this 'knowing' of the loneliness and fear.
it is a blessing when it inspires such words
as these x

 

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Rory McGinlay

Glad you like. Well said, a blessing. Draw on what we know, isn't that what they say about writing? I seem to have taken to heart. Plus, for me, the work's got to take after life, have in the background always that element of horror. 

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Bernadete van d...

...so I reside to giving life my best. Great finishing to a 
very good poem.   B 

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