Night's Poem

Pad Challenge Day 6: Write a night poem

Mute layer over layer merges blue on bronze-bathed sweep

Of pastures on the hillside, silver rivers in the dell

It snuffs the reaching shadows scrawled in whispers on sod-fell

Where minstrels croon a vesper tune to lull the day to sleep

Darling, the road to paradise beneath duvets and dreams

Is scarred with sundry stumbles where attempts at greatness spill

But we will set aside the sorrows of morning until

This spread of star-soft kiss dissolves within time’s begging streams

This span of God-gifted reprieve from duty's tireless tome

Tucks earth beneath the luxury of slumber’s smiling sighs

Save for the bard that wanders through its wonder-woven skies

In search of that elusive word lost somewhere in night's poem

© Janet Martin