Questions Before Dark

My friend Helen has a great blog. Today she shared a poem from a website she follows called A Year of Being Here. She used it as a mentor poem to create her own. Then another friend, Annmarie followed and wrote her own. Now it's my turn! First, is the original poem. Mine is below. Click on my friend's names to see theirs. They are great writers.

Questions Before Dark

by Jeanne Lohman

Day ends, and before sleep

when the sky dies down, consider

your altered state: has this day

changed you? Are the corners

sharper or rounded off? Did you

live with death? Make decisions

that quieted? Find one clear word

that fit? At the sun’s midpoint

did you notice a pitch of absence,

bewilderment that invites

the possible? What did you learn

from things you dropped and picked up

and dropped again? Did you set a straw

parallel to the river, let the flow

carry you downstream?

Questions Before Dark

by Laurie J. Kemp

Day ends, and before sleep 

when the sky dies down, consider 

your altered state: has this day 

changed you? Are the answers to 

your questions near or far? Did you

decide what you want to do? Make decisions

about what to do with the rest of your life? Find one thing 

you think you can do forever? At the sun's midpoint

did you notice a sense of calm,

an inspiration that invites 

reflection? What did you learn

from inhibitions you dropped and picked up

and dropped again? Did you reach out

for what you really wanted, let your desires

carry you into bliss?