The Tears of a Shadow

Clouds

As  black

As  the  pitch

of night.  Spread

their wings and take

their flight. Their mission

to invade the  sky.  Their goal

to  make  the  heavens  cry.  The

 greens below shudder to the thunder’s

drum,   and the animals run away to find

the  sun.  The shadowed  atmosphere gazed

upon  its  world, and in it’s black eye, it caught

the life of a girl.  It observed the tears on her   face,

and felt a warmth grow in its grace. The little girl with

long, soaking, black hair, knelt down on the ground with

a flower in hand. Rocks that jutted out of the earth surround-

ed her, and  mud  began to swallow  the land. “Mommy,” she

leaned on  the  rock  and  cried  almost  silently. “I’m sorry,”  she

sobbed as she laid the flower down gently. The little girl sat in front

of one of these rocks. “Take this flower. Please? For me?” She stood

up and left the flower on the muddy stone. Her black dress all soaked,

muddy, and torn. She began to make her way back home.  The black

air went with her because she was alone. “Thou shalt beast sad not!”

the atmosphere bellowed. “For thou art alone not! Thy hast watch-

ed thou.  Thy art in pain?  Why  doest  thou  not  hear?  Thy is

here with thou, so  thou  must  not  be sad, for thy  cares!”

Startled  the little girl  searched  the sky  to find she

was being watched. She  felt  warm inside and

she knew she was loved again.

Author's Note

Graphic poetry... you've got to love it.

Reviews

[Amanda Naomi]

very beautiful imagery! and i love the tear....i reminds me of the harry potter movies tho, when you look at the daily prophet, there are shapes lol!

great write as always!

[~Angelic~]

I love the poem and I love how it's in the shape of a tear job. Excellent job!

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not only great image but excellent poem to boot!

[Anastasiya]

Awesome. I love all your poems.

[David W Moore III]

very carefully shaped poem both graphically and linguistically. nice.

[AbsentElements]

I do love that the poetry is in a shape, and its even better that the shape goes along with the poem. And the poem itself is just amazing. Very nice.

[Charles]

Nicely done. I see you got a theme to work with, I can't wait to see more.