Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark — Zen proverb
Beginning in the dark Entering in the dark Waking in the dark Playing in the dark Praying in the dark Flying in the dark Falling through the dark Rising in the dark Running in the dark Ripening in the dark Revolving in the dark Converging in the dark
Uttering the dark
Naming the dark
Unraveling the dark
Singing in the dark Flowering in the dark Fluttering in the dark Crying in the dark Vanishing in the dark Echoing in the dark Merging in the dark Melding with the dark Melting in the dark Blistering in the dark Oozing in the dark Opening in the dark
Orbiting the dark
Kindling the dark
Borrowing the dark
Dwelling in the dark Dressing in the dark Dying in the dark Counting in the dark Crouching in the dark Coupling in the dark Dissolving in the dark Seeping in the dark Spinning in the dark Trembling in the dark Quickening in the dark
Scattering the dark
Narrowing the dark
Hollowing the dark
Crossing in the dark Capsizing in the dark Holding in the dark Huddling in the dark Twisting in the dark Twirling in the dark Forming in the dark Unfurling in the dark Fissuring in the dark Withering in the dark Severing in the dark Fevering in the dark
Unwrapping the dark
Measuring the dark
Emptying the dark
Lapping at the dark Looming in the dark Lying in the dark Lying to the dark Yawning in the dark Gathering in the dark Sighing in the dark Smoking in the dark Seeing in the dark Floating in the dark Drawing down the dark
Mimicking the dark
Neglecting the dark
Reckoning the dark
Rooting in the dark Rumbling in the dark Tumbling in the dark Floundering in the dark Fishtailing in the dark Crashing in the dark Cringing in the dark Lounging in the dark Knocking in the dark Balking at the dark Boasting of the dark Ghosting through the dark
Skirting the dark
Clothing the dark
Possessing the dark
Abstaining from the dark Confessing in the dark Withdrawing into dark Proclaiming in the dark Expounding on the dark Whispering in the dark Surfacing in the dark Calling through the dark Faltering in the dark Wallowing in the dark Vibrating in the dark
Wooing the dark
Bamboozling the dark
Abandoning the dark
Unburdening in the dark Undulating in the dark Incarnating in the dark Voyaging through the dark Shadowing in the dark Swooning in the dark Throbbing in the dark Rustling in the dark Rippling through the dark Drifting in the dark Nuzzling in the dark Parting in the dark
Mirroring the dark
Savoring the dark
Weathering the dark
Hissing in the dark Twitching in the dark Retching in the dark Stitching in the dark Winking in the dark Slinking through the dark Sifting through the dark Stirring in the dark Musing in the dark Brooding in the dark Obsessing on the dark Confiding in the dark Hiding in the dark
Anointing the dark
Sweetening the dark
Suckling the dark
Conjugating in the dark Rhyming in the dark Reminiscing in the dark Masquerading as the dark Toying with the dark Plotting in the dark Rummaging in the dark Hungering for the dark Escaping in the dark Beguiling in the dark Belonging to the dark
Blackening the dark
Startling the dark
Unveiling the dark
Leaking darkness
Donna Frazier said:
A spinning of presence and absence, the waxing and waning of shadow.
Warp and weft, darkness and light, continuum of absorbing and emitting.
The moon, constant, consumed by darkness as the light recedes, spirals,
Returns.
Let there be darkness.
Let there be darkness.
Let there be darkness, here, and not apart.
Let there be standing and falling.
Let the sparks drift to rest.
Let the open eyes close. Let the unseen
be seen in the dark. Let Demeter
turn her back on light.
Let winter come.
Let the dark open and open and open, not separate.
Let woman stand in her own shadowlight.
Kathleen Brady said:
A jamboree of gerunds. How sweet it is.
CStifter said:
Whoa. Perhaps best read at the time posted (3am). I liked reading this in the dark.