NIght Vision

EvilToasterElf

Night Vision

I find comfort in cities
when I see them as clusters
of orange lights in the dark horizon
nestled between hills that look
like spaces cut out of the Earth

When the only objects that exist
scuttle out of the headlights
and vanish into the fog
Solitude so rarely finds a man
as when he’s driving quietly
through the darkness

The moon is rendered a softer
presence as the lids of clouds close
and the stars cluster into their
formations like the beads of
moisture condensing into
rivulets of rain

1/11/05

coleen

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for you and your gorgeous poem

Ali

EvilToasterElf wrote:

Night Vision

I find comfort in cities
when I see them as clusters
of orange lights in the dark horizon
nestled between hills that look
like spaces cut out of the Earth

When the only objects that exist
scuttle out of the headlights
and vanish into the fog
Solitude so rarely finds a man
as when he’s driving quietly
through the darkness

The moon is rendered a softer
presence as the lids of clouds close
and the stars cluster into their
formations like the beads of
moisture condensing into
rivulets of rain

1/11/05

Amazing poem...worth trying to get published...as we all should ..however...
the comment about the cities and loneliness in the darkness really struck me and associated myself with the writing.

artin90

nice poem.... but the city is not the place to find solitude

Ali

I just found solitude in a city bar....:)

EvilToasterElf

artin90 wrote:

nice poem.... but the city is not the place to find solitude

I tried to make the city not a city, but simply a collection of lights in the darkness, as one would see a city at night when approaching by car...