by Brian Francis
The twilight hour, drawing the night
Copyright ©2023 B. F. O’Connor
Dissolving the colors of day
Night flows obscuring the eyes
Daylight yielding, fades away.
Brigades of colors assail the clouds
In waves of deepening hue
The birds set roost among the trees
To sing their soulful tune
As the final reflections of daylight fade
A still quietness settles in
Watched over by the moon and stars
Let the reign of Nyx begin
by B. F. O’Connor
In the dim hours of darkened skies;
seeing deep the reaches of the universe,
where worlds turn in silent symphony,
pulsing with the touch of creation.
Mooning at the infinite before me
stars upon stars beyond stars.
Hauntings hid among the shadows
in the darkness of night set free.
Roaming and seeking to no avail,
a time that can never again be found
among the lost deceit of a past life.
Clinging to a memory of what once was.
The orb of night arcs across the sky
washing away the distant depths of time.
The world in shades of gray sleeps
as Sol hides, beneath and behind,
awaiting his moment of triumph-
shadows fleeing at the noise of his coming.
Copyright © 2022 B. F. O’Connor
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