Night People

~ Candace
Beats Beatrix by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beata Beatrix
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Everything has a beginning

formed from misty nowhere

gathering silence into speech

Runic people who found their

place beyond the known world

and dispatch counsel of hope

and peace – without words,

without talk – in the

middle of the night

And in the first light of

morning they retreat again

lingering only in my head,

my heart

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Sunday’s Whirligig word list – misty, world, talk, head, again, place, silence, beyond, people, nowhere, beginning, everything

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Toads photo prompt

Published by Candace

I am a reader, a writer, and a snapper of photos

33 thoughts on “Night People”

  4. I see you enjoy the challenge of more than one prompt mixed. I do, too!

    Very well done. Concise, delightful 55 words!

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  9. I think perhaps artists are more closely in touch with the night people and the night world. And with just one word, ‘runic’ you bring in a whole history of myth and legend crowding into my head. This is hauntingly lovely.

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  10. I’ve read this several times and for some reason each time it’s this line that stands out to me: “gathering silence into speech”—there is something about it that just tugs at the corners of my mind….it is such an evocative image and so thought-provoking for me. I really like it.

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