“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day.” Vincent Van Gogh
No Trace The urgent demand of the fading burnished light, a call to notice the melodies of feathered friends and coppered tones of boughs and leaves, intense revolt against the close of darkest night. A call to notice the melodies of feathered friends, the crackling of dry grass as possums pass, intense revolt against the the close of darkest night runs riot unseen across lawn and canopy. The crackling of dry grass as possums pass, a seething highway or wriggling, crawling life runs riot unseen across lawn and canopy where no trace remains at dawn's first soft glow. A seething highways of wriggling, crawling life, and coppered tones of boughs and leaves where no trace remains at dawn's first soft glow, the urgent demand of the fading burnished light. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Beautifully expressed, Paul. I tend to think all is quiet outside at night, but in reality there are all sorts of wildlife running amuck out there! It’s probably best that I’m not aware of some of them, but the deer tracks right up to the house in the morning are somehow comforting.
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How lovely to have deer, I think of them as harbingers of gentleness, yes, best not know, thank you very much Janet.
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Your pantoum has given me new night vision!
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There’s so much going on in the night, here there are no animal predators either, so relatively safe to watch and be part of. Thank you for sharing that Liz.
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You’re welcome, Paul. 🙂
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such a beautiful expression of the creatures of the night Paul!💖
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Beautiful.
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Thank you Rupali 🙂
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Wonderful, and the image of the possum is so lovely.;-) Yes, nature has is very brillant night life. Michael
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always on the go, thank you Michael
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I love this poem
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Thank you 🙂
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