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Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!
Hidden Figures
by Marge Simon
There are three of them.
Tall shadows fading in and out of view
Before your eyes.
.
Thin & long
you discover them
when a shaft of a streetlight
pushes them away
.
They’re still there
moving back & forth
on the smooth walls just ahead
where only you
see their forms
.
You know you can
make them jump
if you want
.
With practice
you can have them
do more
maybe something
dangerous
maybe worse
.
wait for a passerby
extend your hand.
Fiction © Copyright Marge Simon
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
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A stellar poem.
Thank you, Anita!
Love it – great interpretation of the prompt and oh-so tempting to have a shadow to do all the things your living self is too timid to do.