Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts

Saturday, January 22, 2022

Taybeh- Wadi Moussa, Jordan


          
        We arrive     
        at sunset.
        Stretch out
        stiff limbs
        and open
        eyes to see
        the sandstone
        sculptures
        carved from
        cloud shape
        shifting
        above Petra.

 

poem copyright ©2000 Anne Selden Annab




Publsihed- Harrisburg Review 1998

Friday, January 21, 2022

Sunset


              
        The sun doesn't
            sink slowly.
        It drops suddenly
        as if pulled
        by an unseen hand.
        
        A grasping grip
        afraid to come up
        beyond the horizon
        
        waiting
        
        as the yellow disc
        up above comes
        closer, 


        taking dusk
        and turning it
        into a passionate
        red-orange.


        When the edge
        of the round red sun
        has slipped past a certain
        point on the landscape's edge
        the unseen hand grabs it
        pulls-


        The sun plunges down
        immediately
        dropped
        away.

        Gray light lingers a bit longer
        fingering the last threads of dusk.

poem copyright ©2000 Anne Selden Annab