I never saw what waited in the shadows
until the sun set on a city burning
and dusk became a veil over the world
Out across lands and people already conquered
still drunk on the first taste of rebellion
that long revolt against a night that always returns
Their eyes bloodshot, fixed on the center
where breathes a promise of some eternal morning
dawn after darkest night
And surely now the doors will open
and out will walk the sun into a crowd of waiting ghosts
gentle as it brushes away all memory of shadow
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Has a book ever truly scared you? I’m talking like a horror movie can scare you. There were a few as a kid that definitely got to me. The closest any book has come to matching that in my adulthood is The Exorcist. Mostly I just get chills sometimes, not what I’d call actual fear.
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10 responses to “A Promise of Morning”
I don’t read scary books. I like to sleep at night……and I always avoid shadows……except when I used to jump on them playing with the grandkids.
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Fair enough! (:
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I refused to read or see the movie, The Exorcist. But The Omen was pretty scary, as well as the old classic, “Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte”…which I have on DVD, and still get scared when Joseph Cotton’s character is back from being dumped in the muddy pond, and Charlotte is nearly catatonic… Great poem as usual, Mitchel.
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Ooh I’ll have to check those out! Thank you (:
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The original “Omen” is best–Lee Remick and Gregory Peck…the remake is okay, Julia Styles. But Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte with Bette Davis…well, classic SCARY, good thriller with Hitchcock’s intelligent twists. Enjoy!
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David this is beautiful. So many lovely metaphors in this work. “Out across lands and people already conquered
still drunk on the first taste of rebellion
that long revolt against a night that always returns” you ended this piece so lovely as well. “gentle as it brushes away all memory of shadow.
Yes, that was not the healthiest book/movie. It was one I could not watch for years and it bothered me. I think there are some places for me that I can not go and that is one of them. Have a blessed Wednesday my friend. Love Joni
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Thank you Joni (: I’d say it’s fair not to go to that place! To be honest the scene that gets me the most is when she undergoes a medical procedure in the hospital, rather than all the actual possession stuff.
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You are right of course. As a nurse when I was in training I fought with the psychiatrist about electric shock therapy. I was lucky I wasn’t thrown out of the program. I was so opposed to the procedure. Beautiful poem my friend. Love you Joni
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Well you were on the right side with that one! Thank you (:
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