Love Poem: Shadow Puppets
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Written by: Sandra Haight

Shadow Puppets


Once, side by side, they walked the moonlit beach
     in silence- each alone and incomplete
in disjoined worlds- linked only by the reach
     of tiny, lapping waves upon their feet.

As silver beams of moonlight iced the ground
    and blotted out the heat of sandy gold,
their warmth of humanness was hidden- bound
     beneath blind souls that shivered in the cold.

Yet, on the sand, their shadows danced along-
     a silhouetted couple synchronized
in motion- forms united clear and strong
     against the blankness which the moon devised.

Dark shadow puppets sparked romantic light-
          gave living souls new vision in their night.


December 18,  2014

Shadow Puppets
~8th Place~
Premiere Contest: Silhouette
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
Judged: 09/16/2017

Shadow Puppets
~7th Place~
Premiere Contest: Mid-June
Sponsor: Brian Strand
Judged: 06/15/2017