Poetry Blog No. 176 Winter Twilight

WINTER TWILIGHT

This short lyric poem is based on an imaginative feeling which it attempts to evoke. It is that far and somehow slightly otherworldly feeling that can arise when gazing deeply into a sunset. It uses the trochaic meter- a stressed or long syllable followed by an unstressed or short one- Cattle graze on.
It also uses the repetition of a line which gathers more “weight” as it goes along.




                   WINTER TWILIGHT

Now through winter dusk I drive,
westwards from the eastwards sea.
Cattle graze on gentle ridges,
dark on day's finality.

Now through winter dusk I drive,
snaking nightward towards soft hills.
Time-gnarled, a fig tree rises,
dark against the day's demise.

Now through winter dusk I drive,
viewing vision of time's turning,
final shine of day unfurled;
seeing final golden fire
burning,
burning
on the boundless, dying sky,
beyond the borders of the world.