Refulgence Beyond A Shadow Of Doubt Poem by Nika McGuin
Refulgence Beyond A Shadow Of Doubt
The sky darkens
to a hazy soft blue
and the dim orange glow
of dusty old light bulbs
seemingly grows brighter
as it pours out of rickety old windows
revealing cracks in their chipped paint
I am aware
it's all just
a matter of perspective
it's like realizing that
the streetlights were on all along
and that they simply couldn't
outshine the sun
Once it's race across the sky was run
and into darkness the earth had spun
windows, streetlights, porch lights, and even brake lights
all shined brightly as if they'd finally won
as if, the dawn of unobscured refulgence had just begun
instead, it would soon again be the dawn of the sun
but the lights were too bright to let that dim their fun
if only for six hours, beyond a shadow of doubt the sun was outdone
and if you would, please pardon my pun!
This is one of my favorite Nika-Poems! It's really a poem created out of the limitations of our eyes and the imperfect nature of our perception. And it is admirably focused on the issue of visualization. For example, you include many words that relate to the key subject of LIGHT and they keep our minds focused intently - darken, glow, bright, outshine, dim, shadow, and of course that wonderful Latinate word refulgence, which is really very precise, and relates directly to your theme, which is the role of LIGHT in our human lives. Some readers who don't participate with the poet's vision might say this is a poem about nothing. NO WAY! It's about our reliance on light, our delight in light, our being light. The refulgence is in as well as around us.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/16/2024 5:44:47 PM # 1.0.0.1119
This is lovely Nika. The beautiful transition of day into night and the artificial ligts vying to take up sun's position! But I feel theirs is a short lived refulgence, may be a matter of perspective! The sun shall soon outshine all other lights! Till then, let the other lights continue to delight in their refulgence!