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Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08
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Pennsylvania

0 posted 2009-07-15 09:26 AM



I saw a haze descending
Upon the meadow’s breast
Gray misty morning billows
Enshroud unwilling willows
A bleakness never ending
That stretches east to west
Gray gloomy clouds descending
Upon the meadow’s breast

The woodland turns more ghostly
The field lies cold and dead
Unfriendly thoughts come creeping
While all the world is sleeping
Unsettling notions mostly
Are churning in my head
While visions turn more ghostly
The field lies cold and dead

So dreary is December
And nature at its worst
While ghosts have been assembling
My fragile spine is trembling
That I can scare remember
When autumn colors burst
Succumbed now to December
And nature at its worst

As phantoms stalk the willow
The sun is on the rise
Gray apparitions shifting
The foggy billows lifting
And on a downy pillow
Awaken sleepy eyes
To meadow, woods and willow
And white sun on the rise

I saw a haze descending
Upon the meadow’s breast
And now the vapor rises
To one of God’s surprises
A wonderland of winter
That stretches east to west
A splendor never ending
And nature at its best

Elizabeth Santos

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Artic Wind
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Realm of Supernatural
1 posted 2009-07-15 11:06 AM


very descriptive, I love the imagery. Chilling, but at the same time, beautiful writing.


ARCTIC WIND

Heart2Heart
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since 2009-05-15
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2 posted 2009-07-15 02:21 PM


Living in Scotland I know about those misty mornings   A lovely poem to delight the reader.
Heart2Heart

Margherita
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3 posted 2009-07-15 04:48 PM


Oh,yes, I do see the winter in full splendour, when the nakedness is covered in sparkling white...

Wonderful crescendo, dear Elizabeth, through the mists into beauty revealed.

Love,
Margherita

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
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4 posted 2009-07-16 12:57 PM


This reminds me of those mornings of new snow when I was a child and winter was at it's best. I am keeping this one.
                                     Ida

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24
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5 posted 2009-07-16 06:17 PM


niiice~*~

     

Bloodline
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since 2009-05-23
Posts 236
Oklahoma
6 posted 2009-07-16 10:14 PM


Ah, yes, and in your pen we enjoy
this poetry at it's best, love the rhyme
and sound,

Bloodline

Billie Cullimore
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since 2009-03-27
Posts 315

7 posted 2009-07-18 12:49 PM



This reminds me of a poem I learned when I was a child.  I am not sure who wrote it but it go'es like this  "The snow had begun in the glowming and busily all the night, had been heeping field and hyway with a silence deep and white.(I do know the rest of it but I won't put it here.)

You do good work.

Billie C.

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