Dawning
Small poem about something big.
My mind wanders at night
without any real warning
It gets up, takes flight
often until the morning
It chases you in the dark
since I started mourning
and you left your mark
it wanders until dawning.
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Paul Stewart
Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.
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Comments (22)
Love the elegant simplicity in this one Paul!! ☺️👏👏👏
The subtitle had me scared this was going to be dirty, I won't lie.... 😅 But I am pleasantly surprised with this sad but wonderfully written piece, with a beautiful rhyme scheme. This kind of felt like a break up/ death piece but my mind went with it more as a piece about writing. 🤷♀️ Anyways, congrats on top story Paul. This certainly was a good one!!
Short, sweet and sadly wonderful. Congrats.
Congrats, Paul! This drew me in and then was sad. I love the "my mind wanders at night." 🎉🥳
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Such a lovely, bittersweet and well-deserved TS xx
Wow. Gorgeous.
Love the interplay on words. It led my own mind down the path. Congrats, Paul!
Beautifully said. Congrats on the TS.
Gorgeous and deep, I wonder if dreams are slices of death like Poe said
Simply beautiful and brings a special meaning for me when nightmares turn good.
Beautiful and full of heart ache! The line “It chases you in the dark” was a powerful one
Amazing! The shortness of this piece holds no punches and the rhyme is great.
Very genuine and relatable, Paul. Great work as always!
It’s sometimes a little scary how the ones we lost lodge themselves in our thoughts in the midnight stillness. But in the busyness of the day that flit away like ghosts. Often not returning until the quiet darkness returns. This is a beautiful elegy, Paul. It reminds me of the loved ones who visit me in the magic of the night.
Oh shit I feel this. Something about that preposition there (it… (since…) it…), with the rhyme scheme, really satisfies. And the order of events, too… “since you left your mark, and I started mourning”… I’m simmering in unrequited love reading this
Truly lovely, Paul. <3
Ae you mourning someone. If so 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗. If not with a few tweaks this would fit into my little challenge 'Savages'. I love this and still use the f-ity poem a lot when I am annoyed.
Pithy and poignant, good sir.
More excellent mindwanderings sir
This was so poigant and relatable. Loved it, Sir Paul! 🍩🥐
Wow, what an expression! "Heart" could have also been an appropriate word instead of "Mind".