Moonsoon Sunset, Shemgang

Sol´s gone down, run aground,
Wan glow wanes in westwake;
The duskin´ air is moisty.
Soundlessly,
Dip, slide east,
´tis twilight, throat´s thirsty.
Jetstream steam, ill at ease,
Ponders precipitations.
The rain drops by without so much
As an ´if you please,´
Or a ´by your leave,´;
No notice of intentions, as such.
Shadows deepen, darkness creeps in,
Domesticity hums.
The Wild Ones range the Great Outdoors.
Mother Earth rolls over,
Disdains companion Moon.lover,
Spurns Venus and Mars, etc. & stars.
Insect natter, clawfoot chatter,
Vie for supremacy.
Kingdoms catcall vocally
In mutually impersonal malice
And yet, their silence´s twin solace
And their bedlam, harmony.
Yawn! Unwind. Pubcrawl a mile:
Buildup for self prescribed beer.
Shedwards the cattle are bound,
Mudcaked, sunbaked,
Fly scaled, dung trailed,
Black and white and dappled brown.
Now curtains are drawn and children kept warm
With motherlove and familial affection.
The beer´s in my belly,
I´ll home dead for bed.
It´s ev´dent unsaid;
Nightlife don´t live ´ere, I tell ye!

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