Poets United Midweek Motif ~ An Evening Out

Toronto Skyline at dusk.jpg

O!  Evening Poems
exist in the thousands for loners and nature lovers, 

for children's bed time and would be-lovers, for the end 

of life and all things melancholy ~ 

But where are the poems of the happy hours before, 

during and after dinner?  Where are poems of evenings out 

when we put work aside and sigh and call a friend 

to play or join a family for dinner or . . . ?

Midweek Motif ~ An Evening Out

Maybe there's one in your past?
Maybe it's a fantasy?
You decide.

Write a poem describing 

a marvelous evening out.

Balloon over Luxor - Egypt by Marcosleal 

Poetic Inspiration:

Chekhov

    

      BY HOWARD MOSS

We have the whole evening ahead of us,

We think, our eyesight starting to weaken,

We must have missed the houselights growing dim,

But how could that moment have escaped us when

The roots of the paper trees struck water

And transformed themselves into the real thing—

. . . .

           (Read the rest HERE at the Poetry Foundation.)

          Silver Roses

     BY RACHEL WETZSTEON 

The strings, as if they knew
the lovers are about to meet, begin
to soar, and when he marches in the door
they soar some more—half ecstasy, half pain,
the musical equivalent of rain—
while children who have grown up with one stare
steal further looks across a crowded room,
as goners tend to do.
 . . . . 

                     (Read the rest HERE at the Poetry Foundation.)

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Please:  

1.    Post your  Evening Out poem on your site, and then link it here.
2.    If you use a picture include its link.  
3.    Share only original and new work written for this challenge. 
4.    Leave a comment here.
5.    Honor Poets United by visiting and commenting on our poems.

(Next week's Midweek Motif will be Stormy Weather.) 

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