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Night Walk

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for dVerse ~ Poets Pub: Open Link Night –
or – Painting With Your Words hosted by Lillian,
who has asked us to write a poem motivated by
the painting shown below. This is my response.

“Hushed and Still” by Simie Maryles
https://simiemaryles.com/artist/simie-maryles

The street belongs to us tonight,
to boot and paw and breath made white,
while lamplight pools on sleeping snow
and houses amber-warm with glow.

No traffic, just our shadows long,
the muffled world our only song
two leashes taut, two noses raised,
a sky wind-torn, a moon half-hazed.

We’ll circle back to warmth and rest,
but winter dark has done its best
to make us grateful, slow, and still
for this cold street, this quiet thrill.

NAR©2026

This is “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp” by Led Zeppelin

Open Link Night OR painting with your words!

Everything on The Elephant’s Trunk was created by me, unless otherwise indicated. Thanks for your consideration. NAR©2017-present.

22 thoughts on “Night Walk”

  2. A wonderful ekphrastic poem motivated by Simie’s painting. I know she’ll love it. I am especially smitten by these words:”but winter dark has done its bestto make us grateful, slow, and still”

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  7. As my dad said (he was 90 and I was 65) with a wry cheeky smile, “You know Ivor, if you stick at it, you might make a good plumber one day” … I’m sure he was talking about my poetry writings, I’d already been a plumber for 40 years … and yes, your poems are the “makings of being a good poet one day”…

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