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Nick Stinchcombe kicks off moving shadows with an insanely eerie poem in the villanelle form.

Here's Nick's quick breakdown of villanelle so you can see what's going on here. 

The Villanelle is an interesting poetic form which follows the rhyme-scheme "aba aba aba aba aba abaa". 

It seems extremely boring until the second rule: The first two "a" lines get repeated back and forth as the concluding lines of each successive stanza, and then finally in a row in the final stanza. I took a bit of creative license and changed the repeat lines a bit here and there, but overall stuck with the rules. 

----------------- In Plain Sight 

With pitch-black crawling through the night, obscured completely to your eye, won’t you walk into the light?

A sound might pique a sudden fright.  A glimpse may render calm to die, with pitch-black crawling through the night. You cannot see, your heart takes flight- stifle, deep inside, a cry- won’t you walk into the light?

But there! That glow is growing bright- and now, with joy, your soul might sigh while pitch-black crawls throughout the night.

Yet then -a pause- recall your plight. And know,  too late, the reason- “why won’t you walk into the light?”

Shadows: formless without light. Thought saved, the beams reveal your haven's lie: With Pitch-black crawling through the night You won’t walk far within the light.

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