Twice a day

[ChristopherSea]

Thanks for the thoughtful read Keith, somehow you always seem to be able to read what I wanted to be found in a poem...which I think is more down to your reading skill rather than my writing skill...but I will still hover up the feel good of a good job

The reads on this have been really interesting and have given me a lot to think about for an edit. I wrote with a rural setting in mind. Long country lanes - twilight in the winter and the panther* is the bogie man, but it looks like it is translating into an urban picture just as readily. I would like to think this over some more before I do an edit and see if I can tighten it up to read for both views.

* Black panther is something I put in because of a childhood thing we had local to us. Our school bus was run by a family who lived a couple of villages away...the daughter was snatched from the house and held hostage for weeks before being horribly tortured and murdered. The TV named him the Black Panther and suddenly everyone at school was obsessed with locking the house and not being out after dark and he was never caught. I realised it was too abstract and local for the poem, but I kind of liked the twist it gave to the read so it stayed in.

you are such a encouraging person btw ><

Oh my god, that blank panther explanation is horrific story! What a thing to experience as a child AJ. That is another poem in itself.