Composition

Dave BontaRomantic

noon they say is part bees

and they say dark candles make the night

from her smile I smile

if we always sit in a box lose the boxes

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 2 February 1669.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Romantic
Topics:: smile, bee, candle, noon

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Each short stanza in this poem offers a small, odd shift in how we see ordinary things. Noon is "part bees," as if the brightest, busiest hour of the day hums with living insects. Dark candles "make the night," which flips the usual idea that candles push darkness away.

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