Sorrow's Shadows

Carol Davidson 1954 (Virginia)



Washing me in sorrows shadows,
the ebbing tide of light
signals the coming end of day,
the cold dark wave of night.
How sad to see the darkness fall
upon another day alone,
When we could follow the light of the moon
to the newness of love's dawn.

About this poem

A poem about being alone when love is waiting to be grasped.

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Written on 2008

Submitted by CarolDavidson on April 24, 2023

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEFG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 246
Words 52
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

Carol Davidson

Carol Davidson is a retired southern Christian woman, now living in the mountains of Northeast Alabama. Carol's life experience includes infertility, disappointment, marriage to an addict and adulterer, abuse and divorce, blessing and loss, desperation and salvation. A woman alone in the world except for three sisters, their children and grandchildren, Carol embraces life with hope in Christ Jesus, as she approaches 70. She expresses herself in poetry, prose, paint and other various artistic forms. Primarily self taught, except for the sewing skill that she gained as a young girl from her mother, Carol worked in architectural and mechanical design for 40 years. She inherited the 'mechanical gene' from her mother who installed electrical systems in military airplanes in WWII, and showed her four daughters that there was nothing they couldn't do. Still, Carol has learned through life events, that all you can do is all you can do, and the rest is in God's hands. more…

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