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Elizabeth Santos
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0 posted 2000-11-20 08:41 AM


November Ponderings

October shed her colors to the earth
Until the coming of the spring’s rebirth
A whiteness falls upon the morning green
In frosty coat of icy crystalline

The floral rainbow blooms of flower bed
Have given way to my sweet holly red
The umbered shades of copper, gold and plum
Are shriveling now to frost upon the mum

What then is left to please the watching eye
But white of snow and gray of winter sky?
The colored wings of winter birds aspread
The green of pine and my sweet holly red

And what shall happen when the berries fall
And snowy mantle lays upon it all?
The bluejay blue will come upon the scene
And cardinal red will light on holly green

The warbler’s yellow wing and sparrow gray
Will flutter passed my eye until one day
When snow has melted under winter wren
The red of robin will appear again

The robin redbreast, on its nesting wing
Will bring a pastel palette filled with spring

Elizabeth Santos



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Celeste
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1 posted 2000-11-20 08:52 AM


OH BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!  I applaud.  I'm speechless.........Outstanding....What a picture you paint.  

To capture and live a moment is truly living

Sunshine
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2 posted 2000-11-20 10:07 AM


lovely, gorgeous, serenely Elizabeth's pen...

Karilea
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I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound.
KRJ




Tony Abbot
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3 posted 2000-11-20 10:54 AM


This is truly painting with words.You've captured the magic of this time of year.

'Humankind cannot bear too much reality' T.S.Eliot

Passions Voice
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4 posted 2000-11-20 12:42 PM


It's too late to ponder November here.  I do miss it so.

Wonderful poem.

passion is life. . . ~Diana

ethome
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New Brunswick Canada
5 posted 2000-11-20 05:15 PM


Elizabeth I love that title November Ponderings...you certainly went on into the verses bringing the meaning of that title out so deeply and beautifully with a certain penchant for the coming season as everything once again goes through it's cycle. Loved the reference to the Robin at the end..I always get such an appreciation for life when I read one of your nature flavoured poems....thanks so much dear lady...ethome
Denise
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6 posted 2000-11-20 09:53 PM


Beautiful ponderings, Elizabeth!! Very lovely! You could almost make me like winter!!  

Denise

Marge Tindal
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7 posted 2000-11-20 10:00 PM


Elizabeth~
Simply a November to remember.
Lovely, dear lady.
~*Marge*~


~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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8 posted 2000-11-20 10:13 PM


beautiful, Liz.....seasons always change and colors never stop....neither does your pen  
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9 posted 2000-11-21 01:06 PM


This is lovely, Elizabeth... I like your ponderings very much! *S*
doreen peri
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10 posted 2000-11-21 01:12 PM


absolutely lovely! your images, rhythm, meter, rhyme... all of it... a perfect poem  
Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08
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Pennsylvania
11 posted 2000-11-21 03:09 PM


Thank you all so very much for your kind comments. I appreciate your reading and responding
Liz

Wilfred Yeats
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12 posted 2000-11-21 04:27 PM


I agree with Doreen - can pay you no higher compliment - it is perfect!!!!!!!!!
Rosemary J. Gwaltney
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northern mountains, Idaho
13 posted 2000-11-21 05:12 PM


Oh, Liz, just when I think you have amazed me as much as my soul can hold, you astound me yet again, with the beauty of your poetry.  This is absolutely lovely.


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