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twilight words

A list of 23 words by rolig.

  • morningrisewas added by rolig and appears on just this list
  • сумеркиwas added by rolig and appears on just this list
  • somrakwas added by rolig and appears on just this list
  • dämmerungwas added by rolig and appears on just this list
  • eventidewas added by rolig and appears on 62 lists
  • crepusculewas added by rolig and appears on 55 lists
  • crepuscularwas added by rolig and appears on 390 lists
  • semidarknesswas added by rolig and appears on 3 lists
  • half-lightwas added by rolig and appears on 3 lists
  • sundownwas added by rolig and appears on 13 lists
  • sunsetwas added by rolig and appears on 52 lists
  • sunrisewas added by rolig and appears on 54 lists
  • evenwas added by rolig and appears on 56 lists
  • twilitwas added by rolig and appears on 21 lists
  • nightfallwas added by rolig and appears on 27 lists
  • daybreakwas added by rolig and appears on 32 lists
  • morningwas added by rolig and appears on 63 lists
  • eveningwas added by rolig and appears on 47 lists
  • dawnwas added by rolig and appears on 92 lists
  • gloamingwas added by rolig and appears on 213 lists
  • ughtenwas added by rolig and appears on 19 lists
  • duskwas added by rolig and appears on 131 lists
  • twilightwas added by rolig and appears on 183 lists

About

And while we're on the subject, here's a poem I found many years ago, and still love, about a certain kind of twilight.

TO THE BIRDS

today before night came the sky

was a color that might have been called

with equal justice violet green or gray

so I left it

to the birds who argued loudly

and inconclusively for an hour

until each fell asleep in a moment (it's

amazing how

they sleep) leaving me to calcu-

late the dimensions of the rhomboid

which the streetlamp presses to the ceiling like

a handkerchief

 – Rawley Grau

© 1988

first published in Poetry Toronto, No. 155 (Nov. 1988)

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