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Open Poetry #13

Cold

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-04-20 10:27 AM

Cold
Virginia Salter

cold
though sunlight streams
through the glass
I watch it pass
unheeding
nothing seems capable
capable of warming
any part of me

perhaps sleep
sleep, its silence
will stay this chill
that engulfs me
edges me
in imaginary icicles
yet sleep may not come
in blanketed comfort
for day’s begun

hours pass
minutes crash
down on me
governing me
ruling my days
stealing my freedom
to curl in a cocoon
of my making
as if baking
in the warmth
so sought
by every inch of me

©April 20, '01

if you read this, I'm hoping you will seek down the board my "Night Flight" and "Behind the Shower Curtain" both written last year.

RMW
Senior Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

1 posted 2001-04-20 10:37 AM

Virginia...."...minutes crash down on me..." Yes..."..if the hands of time..." Well said. Bob

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

2 posted 2001-04-20 12:07 PM

This is very nice, Virginia, very nice indeed

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

3 posted 2001-04-20 04:10 PM

Well done.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Just A Woman
Senior Member

since 2001-03-10

Posts 507

4 posted 2001-04-20 04:43 PM

Oh.......I know that feeling. Well expressed, Virginia!

"I can't remember if I'm the good twin or the evil one."

kaile

Member Ascendant

since 2000-02-06

Posts 5146
singapore

5 posted 2001-04-24 11:08 PM

VAS,

i always read your work but always felt inadequate to comment constructively...this however was a real beauty and i hate to let it pass without saying that i liked this muchly

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