Better Be Careful, Poet...

PAD Challenge day 6: For today’s prompt, take the phrase "Better (blank),"

replace the blank with a new word or phrase,

make the new phrase the title of your poem,

and then, write your poem...

Because of the rain and the end to Daylight Saving Time,

darkness began to fall at 5:00 p.m.!

Dusk’s darkness drops an ethereal veil over the countryside

The night rolls in, an ocean driv’n by an invisible tide

You better be careful, Poet; November can cast a spell

And set beneath its brooding deep, a bottomless inkwell

The day dissolves, a little like a snowflake on Time’s tongue

It covers every window where November’s landscape hung

You better be careful, Poet; for the heart is easy prey

When standing on dusk’s shoreline watching daylight ebb away

© Janet Martin