''Incantation to the Night'' by David Hart <br /> <br />Puddles smile and slyly wink to the whispering slick streets. <br />Lo, a passerby tearfully weeps <br />Weeps through the panes of the dark <br /> <br />Raffish street lights groan and cackle at moths and flys <br />A woman's banshee gait beckons and paws at yearning passersby <br />Arrant eyes now pierced by neon sirens <br />Igneous memories of other times-a spingier step, a lighter mind <br /> <br />Amidst the smells of charred meat and rotting flowers, <br />Cars sigh in minor chords-crooning smoky arpeggios <br />A darkness histoire-a Nyxian wail-an incantation to the night. <br /> <br />vocabulary: raffish-adj.-characterized by rowdy carefree unconventionality; banshee-Irish Folklore-a female spirit forboding the demise of a loved one; igneous-adj.-fiery; Nyx-myth-god of night <br />For oil paintings and more poems by David Hart go to: http: //groups.msn.com/hart2/shoebox.msnw<br /><br />David Hart<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/incantation-to-the-night-by-david-hart/
