Tuesday, April 21, 2026

A Lighted Candle

 

                                                                                        Author: Gerard Sekoto

Image: Sekoto: Boy and the Candle (1943)

The Sunday Whirl: the 10 of 12 given words:
swaying drifted steam grass radiance flushed 
perfume hypnotic skin hiss - 753

The lighted candle its flame swaying
drifted upwards its sterile aroma of steam 
and smoke permeated the air

A feel of freshly cut grass gripped his 
imagination 

Its radiance flushed his mind with 
a perfumed hold that enveloped
him in a hypnotic trance 

He shivered in his skin as though 
a hissing snake had left
its venom all over 

He regretted having abandoned 
his wife with a young son recently

Now perhaps having to face 
divine correction for his mistake


Brenda Warren's https://Sunday Whirl Wordle #753
Melissa Lemay in Poetics at d'Verse: The Art of G.Sekoto

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