My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #28: Moonlight by Edvard Munch
Quicksilver moonlight
maddens
as it slips
behind clouds
and tangles
in the angles
of sharp branches
along the un-
winding garden
path,
in and out
of shadows,
beckoning you
to follow
and then
sliding
away again
until the front gate
slams heavily
and you stand
moonfaced
on an empty street,
gathering darkness
at your feet.
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 
Wow! Love it! There’s nothing peaceful and simple about this painting, and your poem really captures the strange tension I know I see in it.
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Thanks Jane. I love Munch’s work and was immediately inspired by this image.
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the rhythm and flow so nicely aligned with the painting, “tangles / in the angles” both in expression and form – a splendid (dark) riff
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Cheers!
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I remember that Munch painting from your poetry challenge in 2016! I too am intrigued and entranced by it, and it inspires different kinds of ideas and writing. I love the shadow movement in the opening paragraph, and the feeling that someone has been riffling pages on a desk and the familiarity of ‘strange lines that don’t sound like me’. Our synchronicity is even more interesting when I ponder the words ‘I now believe, not in ghosts, but in dead poets and restless words’ – I don’t think I’m dead yet, but I do have a relationship with restless words!
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