Poem for Carry on Tuesday

Carry On Tuesday prompts with the opening lines of the poem 'The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare
"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door




Threshold

knocking on the moonlit door
deep within the woods
the weary traveller calls out
'is there anybody there?'

tiredness rides his shoulders
a spot of rest his only wish
the cabin throws back moonlight
keeps the window dark

he nudges the knob
the door squeaks inward
calls him forward
not a sound pushes back

setting down his pack
he swings his walking stick...
the bed he'd left a decade past
waits behind the moonlit door

Fractal image created in Apophysis, resized in Irfanview.

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