Sometimes I awake in darkness
straining to see a light-any light
I’m getting faster at reaching that light
(but the effort is still the same)
It’s a relief when I do
as I peel back the inky blackness
(with new-found courage)
joining the waking world once more
©Vivian Zems
Day 11
Smell The Coffee 
April 11, 2018 at 2:56 pm
I peel back the inky blackness… such an evocative description.
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April 12, 2018 at 2:10 pm
Thanks Kerry!
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April 11, 2018 at 2:58 pm
Love the image of ‘inky blackness’ here. It works well to depict despair from which we struggle everyday.💜
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April 12, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Precisely!
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April 11, 2018 at 3:07 pm
Love this! ❤
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April 12, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Ta!😁
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April 11, 2018 at 3:13 pm
I love both the poem and the picture to go with. You hit a new level with this, Vivian.
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April 12, 2018 at 2:10 am
Awesome thank you!😆
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April 11, 2018 at 3:21 pm
This is special and sadly true for many of us. I identify with your words, expressed so beautifully.
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April 12, 2018 at 2:09 am
Thank you ☺. I wrote this on ‘one of those days ‘
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April 11, 2018 at 4:36 pm
Its something we all do, like now at 1.30am, I’m up, light on, can’t sleep, I’ll write and or read a while.
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April 12, 2018 at 2:08 am
😊
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April 11, 2018 at 5:56 pm
I’m getting faster at reaching that light…
That effort will pay off! Lovely
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April 11, 2018 at 7:15 pm
Thank you😊
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April 11, 2018 at 8:28 pm
I like the peeling back the inky blackness.
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April 12, 2018 at 2:06 am
Thanks Sherry!
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April 11, 2018 at 9:27 pm
I like the asides in parentheses, Viv, and love the lines:
‘…I peel back the inky blackness
…
joining the waking world once more’.
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April 12, 2018 at 2:05 am
Thanks Kim!
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April 12, 2018 at 12:36 am
Beautifully said. May it become easier with time! (After all, where you live, the light will be arriving earlier each day. 🙂 )
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April 12, 2018 at 2:04 am
Thanks Rosemary, 😊. I’m looking forward to seeing more of it.
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April 12, 2018 at 5:23 am
I love the “peeling back the darkness”
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April 12, 2018 at 1:59 pm
Thanks Toni 😊
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April 14, 2018 at 2:27 pm
An evocative testament to the truth: the struggle is real!
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April 15, 2018 at 2:49 pm
Indeed it is. Thanks Frank!
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May 21, 2018 at 4:02 am
I used this pixabay pic in one of my poems. That’s what brought me here. I’m glad it did. Great write. 🙂
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May 21, 2018 at 2:40 pm
Thank you 🙂
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