The Tocsin

Free verse from 'Amalgam' (2010)

 

I heard

deep thunderous blows of the troubled tom bell

breaking down the silence

in the dead of the night.

I did not know for whom the bell tolled

but the sound meant a definite sign.

And then

I saw the light

with near-sighted eyes of my open mind

and realized

the tocsin was tolling deep inside

it was the sound

of my anxious heart

that was so desperately trying 

to wake my sleeping soul

up

 

Reviews

[J. J. Nightingale]

"I saw the light with near sighted eyes, of my open mind" .. Wow great line .. A sudden self awareness . an awakening .. Rise up, before it is too late ...

Wow .. Jasmine

[Mockingbird]

brings to mind someone having a wake-up call; the tolling coming from within. perhaps the person has been living a superficial life, every day the same, until his heart was begging his soul to awaken up his spirituality. (?) nice poem.