Mot Juste

Well-placed verse
impacts
cold stone

fracturing

compounding gaps

loosening
two bricks

then ten

collapsing limits

splitting
walls

emancipating blinded sight

deliverance:

good morning's light.



Mot Juste © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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25 words (prompt limit).  Dylan Thomas quote inspiration (poems changing the world) challenge prompt - link: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2752276-25-words-or-less---Dylan-Thomas--noguest

This poem is, in a way, a response to Thomas' famous "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" poem ( https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night ), alluding partly to the "blinding sight" while offering counterpoint to the "that good night"  with "good morning's light."

This poem also embodies the spirit of Thomas' verse in not "going gently" but rather being bold - there, at the end, while, here, at the beginning.
Submitted: June 8, 2020

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