Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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56. Danger Ahead [100 poems challenge]

 

56.          Danger Ahead

I cautiously move
Quite anxious to prove
That I can progress without fear;
Horizon is scanned,
Each step fully planned,
Deciphering sounds that I hear.

I quietly pause
To work out the cause
Of movement seen off to one side;
A deep sense of doom
From shadows that loom,
I cannot tell what they might hide.

I glance left and right
As dusk turns to night,
Yet still I don’t know what I’ll find;
Alert to the dread
Of danger ahead …
But heedless of monsters behind.

16 June 2013

 

Comments: This took me a few days before an idea came, but I’m reasonably happy with it apart from the fact that I haven’t really been able to convey the idea that the protagonist was only looking ahead and not behind.

Themes to come: 57. Sacrifice; 58. Kick in the Head; 59. No Way Out; 60. Rejection; 61. Fairy Tale

Explanation about the 100 poems challenge here.

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