Lamplight in Two Chapters

I have just joined a Poetry group, first meeting last evening. The poem that follows is a timed exercise (15 minutes) about, or using, the word Lamplight. Tonight I've polished it up a bit including dividing it into two chapters.

        Chapter One 

Streets dark and shadowed

Clouds pinked to gold to slate

Striped and frayed between

high rising windows

Streets dark and shadowed deeper

lamplights pool relief on sidewalks

over trash cans and daffodils

spotlighting orange pylons and signs.

Streets darkened and shadowy are

satisfied that daylight errors are hidden

surprised by lamplights 

saving small bits of the day

Streets dark and shadowed more deeply

reflections of pinpointing stars

governed majestically by a moonful of lamplight

celestial monarch over the electrical grid.

Streets darkened and seen from above

become curving strips of black satin

lined with pinpoints of lamplight

sequins strewn throughout cities and towns

           Chapter Two

Lamplight prevents us from knowing  

what is outside the edge of darkness

shining on gritty grey sidewalks

showing benches mounded with a blanketed someone.

Lamplights save us from

tripping over wires and lumpy places

set down to direct us on a correct path

set down to keep us out and away.

Lamplight points our next steps

for a stroll in the perfumed night

when rain washes away the sins of the day

to find satisfaction in a job well done.

     songs gloriously sung

          dances joyfully spun

Lamplight vanishes with the rising of the sun,

the reigning monarch of each day

wakens from deep blue to grey to gilded horizons ~

A monarch who needs no lamplight.

“A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun

 and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.”

~ Amit Kalantri