The Late Show - POEM

[RJDiogenes]

J Allen started a "Poetry Slam" thread over at TrekBBS, which I found early Saturday morning. Per the instructions, I dashed this off in a couple of minutes, off the top of my head. Looking at it again a few days later, I think it turned out pretty good.

The Late Show
© 2014 Rick Hutchins

Lightning flickers
over the Blue Hills
like an old TV at 3am.
The fog it illuminates
is grainy
as if the world
were an aged photograph.
Yet the mist is wet
on my face
as I smile at the thunder.
My fingers can feel
the moist brown dirt
in the garden.
The earth. This Earth.
Rolling through blackness,
it bleeds in color
and laughs in light.

[emma glitch]

Good imagery! I like it.

[Lupine]

That is good.

[RJDiogenes]

Thank you both.

I wish I could get the knack of just writing off the top of my head all the time like that.