Just before Christmas there was one last Open Link Night for 2025 at dVerse Poets and it was hosted by Grace. At open link night you can link any poem you would like or you can respond to a mini prompt offered.
The mini prompt for this night was for the image below, “Extinction of Useless Lights” by Yves Tanguy (1927) …
- Use the image as a muse for your poem. Write an ekphrastic poem (a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art).
- Or use the title of the image as a title or part of your poem: Extinction of Useless Lights.
But I’m just coming about the prompt now as I knew dVerse was taking a break for the holidays so I hadn’t checked in and, though I obviously missed the deadline for submitting with all the others, I still wanted to do something with it.
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Night Approaches Then
The sun cast shadows
in its decline
stretched to the east as if calling
to the shapes of souls
he helped to exist
while he could
to not linger long
in the waste
or to try hide in the bramble
as it would offer no haven
from the heaven’s judgement
or angry devils from the depths
reeling in the sky like a kite forced back to earth
pulling darkness behind
until the sun passed away
trying as he may
and the shapes,
the souls,
lost their day
to night
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