Nightly

I have always found the night more beautiful than the day

Only in the inky blackness do the stars shine

Shyly peeking past the domineering sun

Daring to outnumber the moon.

Only in the inky blackness do the stars shine

Skilled flirters

Daring to outnumber the moon

Casting out feminine dreams.

Skilled flirters

The lords of day are sleeping now

Casting out feminine dreams.

Twenty-five pounds of silk slip off a woman.

The lords of day are sleeping now.

Shyly peeking past the domineering sun

Twenty-five pounds of silk slip off a woman

I have always found the night more beautiful than the day.

Photo by Ameen Fahmy on Unsplash

Written for the Experiments in Fiction Poetry Challenge #10: Pantoum.

A pantoum is a Malay verse form, most often imitated in French and English. It consists, traditionally, of four quatrains (four lines) with lines from each quatrain repeating throughout the poem.

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