Written for:  Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt 223 – “And I Quote”-Installment #4

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

~ Walt Whitman

“This inspiration from American poet, Walt Whitman, plays on the concept and contrast between sunshine and shadow; between light and dark. We’ll use these as our starting point. Write either a sunshine poem or a shadow poem. Or light. Or dark. Either definition of each is acceptable, as in gradations of luminescence or lighthearted or darkly mooded words. Even something black or white can satisfy this prompt.”

Shadows
can barely be seen
in this heavily-curtained
darkness of death.
Certain passings
of life can snap
your mind, cut out
your hearts, flood
your eyes, and wrap
a shawl of fog
around your shoulders.
What is it like
when there is no more
shadow?

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