Uzal and Up

U Day in the AtoZ Challenge!

It is National Poetry Month, so I am posting a poem a day as I participate in the AtoZ writing challenge.  I will be writing ekphrastic poetry (a poem that was written with inspiration from an image) using a randomly generated image with a randomly generated FAKE word all this month.  

I am using the site: https://randomwordgenerator.com to get both a fake word and random image for the day.  Here's today's image and poem using the FAKE word "uzal":

Up

Down in the hole
The whole sky is small
And there’s only the upwards
To which we can crawl
There’s dark at the bottom
And light up above
And that is the story
Of God’s own true love
For when we’ve climbed skyward
And stepped into light
We’ll find the horizon
Is endless and bright
The uzal of darkness
Upon itself shrinks
As light floods the spaces
To break the last links.


Donna JT Smith ©2022