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Poems tagged ‘absence’

A Liminal Evening

John Gilbert Ellis

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023

A spring evening,
bats flit the warm twilight.
Enjoying the swarm,
feeding on the excitement,
chants echo under the floodlights.

A ravenous crowd, and
the biggest gathering ever.
Roosted to the rafters, some
hanging off the trees,
been there, queued up for hours.

Bats back in my essay!
I should be there, not you.
Stadium bound, and
feasting on the spectacle,
instead, I’m writing tepid, about you.

Phylum, class, and order,
your Yinps, and your Yangs.
Mammals who fly
with the wisdom of birds,
found in warm, across every land.

I could paint you positive,
or associate you with the dark.
Protector from disease,
or mythic purveyor
of a well-known deathly trademark.

Here’s a deal, if the football goes my way,
I’ll write you up as symbols
of rebirth, luck, and long life,
not unhappy birds,
who prayed to be like mankind.

Until then, I write liminal,
sitting on the fence.
Darkness, light, doom
and hope equally reign,
unless we win the game.

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