Ten of One Thousand
A little bit of sharing; this project has been going on in the background for a while. About time I cracked on with it! Fairly happy with it up to verse 462, only another 538 to go. One Thousand Miracles In One Day (The first ten verses, first edit.) Down the wall a spider walks Unseen, the whisper of eight feet Unheard on the wallpaper, this is A secret world, a spider’s world At the zero hour it seems nothing exists But the deep breathing of sleep And the heaving of wind in darkness Bowing trees as though dragons fly here Uncounted leaves stream, pulling On thin stems, twisting loose, one leaf Takes hold of the air, it has no plans For landing, that will just happen Droplets absorb night, outside Dark rain falls, clouds Thicken sky, at the deepest Point of our dreaming sleep Too far above to permeate sleep An aeroplane passes, full of journeys Full of stories we will not hear, the travellers Look down at pat