Famous Quoted Line Poetry Contest

I really like YesNo's, for its simplicity and wryness. But, as a fan of the understated moment captured, I'm going to plump for DarkMuse's contribution.

Thank you! It was fun writing. At first I had no idea what I was going to do with the line, but then I just began to spin this idea.

Congrats once more, DarkMuse! :crazy:

Thank you!

Ok your next line is:

Between the dark and the daylight

From The Children's Hour ~ Henry Wadworth Longfellow

Between the dark and the daylight
Beneath clouds swiftly moving east
Before the full moon rises in her splendor
Beware the fearsome beast!
Between sleep and waking solitude
Believe the shadows whispering, beckoning
Behave lest the shambling ones awake
Bespeaking the day of dreadful reckoning
Being sure to check the depths of closet
Beneath the bed, look left, look right!
Behind the bookshelf lurks what comes
Between the dark and the daylight...

Pendragon
(C) 7/23/2012

Strange Dreams Dawning

Between the darkness and the daylight
They suffered and they grew.
From April into May's light
Half-conscious dreams came true.

between the dark and the daylight
awoke a light out of the sunrise
it looked abrupt but slightely edgewayed
it sensed a breeze from outer somewhere
which made it smile thousands of highwaves
between the dark and the daylight
reached out a star from upper moonlight
it looked as if brittled but upright
it danced around the skies of midgnight
and flew right out to space and skilight

All very excelent poems.

YesNo: I am not sure I entirely understand this poem, but I did enjoy reading it. A lot is conveyed in just a few lines and I like the somewhat haunting feeling about it. I loved the last line.

cacian: Some wonderful imagery within your poem. I enjoyed you use of rhyme. I loved this line "awoke a light out of the sunrise" and thought it was a very good pairing with the chosen quote for this challenge. It makes it fit so naturally into the poem. I always really enjoyed "it looked abrupt but slightely edgewayed"

and the winner is

Pendragon: I loved this. Great imagery, and I liked the cleverness of starting which line with a word which begins with "be" also very much enjoyed the dark atmosphere of the poem. Bringing the last line back to the first gave the poem a nice rounded feeling and I like the way in which it gives the feeling that the poem could just keep repeating itself.

Dark Muse thank you again very much for the feedback and congratulations Pendragon:hurray:

Thank you! Let's see: hummmmm...

From Emily Dickinson:

"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"

Good luck! :leaving:

Haha I misread that as
''Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped me":aureola:

Death at the Cafe

I found myself before
the frozen coffee shop
where everything
held still, and even time
had come to a meaningless end,
the clock gave way not even one
lonely tock amid the silence,
where halted conversation
hovered thick in the air,
expressions poised and ready
upon faces now fixed,
it was a world within a world.

I saw him sitting there
a wayward grin upon his lips,
ironically now he appeared
the most living thing in the room,
while he gestured for me to take
a seat, because I could not stop for Death
he kindly stopped for me,
and so we sipped our frappe,
playing checkers and catching up
on days long begone.

He is my oldest friend
and yet so often neglected,
but ever he takes it in stride
for in the end he always gets his due,
and so when life begins to move too fast
he needs but a twitch and a wink
to bring the clocks to a stand still
and watch time fall upon its knees,
he never forgets a face
nor for that matter a name,
and he always foots the bill.

Soon enough he will push play
and the world will spin back
into axis, and again I will be upon my way,
but I can still hear him laughing,
jovially while he bids me good day,
for it is inevitably so that will
meet again.

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me.
He took the reins held by my hands
And set my spirit free.

It's then I knew the wonder of
The part I had to play,
And felt the welcome, home again,
To an eternal day.

As I dream of time gone by.
The scarlet dawn which I see in the distance but yet before my eyes.
The mist that worm it way over me, within this shallow heaven.
The damp that reach out to comfort in me.

As I dream of time gone by.
The silence is nightmare to me.
With serene lush of ruby sea before me.

As I dream of time gone by.
''Because I Could Not Stop For Death,he kindly stopped for me"