1. Imagery: The Night Sky
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2. Tonight I will be outside your door, Heralding darkness, like
Every time before:
Nudging all brightness away
Inching into every shadow and corner
Gliding over the land
Hiding every last spark of light
Tiptoeing into your world
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3. Tonight I will be outside your door, Heralding darkness, like
Every time before:
Nudging all brightness away
Inching into every shadow and corner
Gliding over the land
Hiding every last spark of light
Tiptoeing into your world
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4. Spider Night Darkness has too many legs, walks high and silently
across wide spaces
into everywhere;
spreads hands like spider webs
across your garden,
your house,
your room;
watches
through the long night
with unsleeping
spider’s eyes;
hears you breathing.
Irene Rawnsley
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5. a heavy black curtain drawn across the sky
the inside of a closed box
being down a coalmine at midnight
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6. Darkness is like…
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7. a shiny white football that has been kicked into space
a fat clown’s face with hardly any make up
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8. The Moon is like…
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9. someone spilt salt on a black table cloth
God’s Christmas decoration lights
little holes in a big black curtain that let a little bit of light shine through
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10. The stars are like…
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11. The Night Will Never Stay The night will never stay,
The night will still go by,
Though with a million stars
You pin it to the sky:
Though you bind it with the blowing wind
And buckle it with the moon,
The night will slip away
Like sorrow or a tune.
Eleanor Farjeon
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