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somewhere between daydreams
and the shadow of night
or rising as the sun and moon
life comes in shapes and colors
the rainbows of my thoughts
where time is terrible to please
battling with the pulse of my heart.

I can’t say how often I thirst
or hunger for the shade of nightfall
while I mourn in the sunrise
O’ it’s like being drunken and sad
even the sunlight seems to tremble
in the thunders of this insomnia
but here in the lines of this poem
you can’t see my weakness nor weeping.

evening brings its bell of darkness
scattering dreams like a field of stars
hills of wild flowers blooming in the rain
they seem to sing like song birds
time is holding both day and night firmly
stretching its fingers across the universe
it lies so strictly without chains or threads.

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Myrtle Thomas writes contemporary poetry on ranging topics from her observations of life and the activities around her and across the world. She has a collection of poetic musings on the man-made worlds, the intertwinings that blur their boundaries and the emotions that push and pull their horizons into perspective. She has four published poetry books and has been featured in the Spring edition April 2022 Volume 4 of The Writers and Readers’ Magazine. She has been published in Otherwise Engaged: A Literature and Art Journal, Volumes 8 , 9 and 10  and 11. Myrtle has had her work read on 4 Pod Cast and has joined in the on-air reading as well. Myrtle lives in the USA and is retired from a large Midwest manufacturing company serving the world with medical equipment. She attributes her writing to being retired and living in the country. She is a wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother.