OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears
Today lets look at light and shadow in the form of a Cleave poem. The neat thing about this two column poem is it can be read as three different poems. Here’s a cleave poem I wrote in December of 2021 using bold text instead of columns:
Crimson Morning Light
Even when certified, I must sleep
officially declared possessing, my eyes close
meeting certain standards, my breath slows
no law covers this nightly transport
the dream smuggler of kermes vermilion
a scale insect, a sap parasite
writhing with nymphs, squashed to crimson
the color of the light behind
my closed lids, the pulsing blood
singing the sun, rising to greet
sneaking through curtains, the day begun
Writober 2023
Today’s image prompt is a photograph by Gregory Crewdson. Look carefully at the shadows. Where is that spotlight coming from? Where is the light that’s making those tree-shadows?
Halloween Photography Challenge
The image at the top of this post is a photo I took playing with shadow art. I made a Pinterest board with some shadow art I think is amazing.
Please link to your creations in the comments. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Experience Writing 
My last 4 photos for the challenge. If you are curious….
http://missdragonlady.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-photography-challenge.html?m=1
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Ooh, these are great! I love that owl.
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Laura De Bernardi
the dictionary of light & dark
what is light
is luminscent
radiant, glowing
ablaze
what is dark
is black, inky
murky, gloomy
shady
synonym count:
more for light
than for dark
adjectives for dark:
calamitous
catastrophic
cataclysmic
ruinous
a bomb explodes
it is light
then it’s dark
thinking of Gaza
thinking of Israel
light life
dark death
what we wish
upon each other
light blazes
it is also possible
to say that
dark blazes too
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Thank you for figuring out a comments work-around. I really like this poem, how it grows. I especially like “a bomb explodes/it is light/then it’s dark”
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