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secondhanddreampoet
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0 posted 2013-11-29 03:14 PM


All dead leaves and drifting
clouds have blown away.
The birds have vanished
from the Wintry twilight sky.
We lean alone together
these bare-bone trees and I,
in this ancient, silent ‘endless’
   mountain forest
until only the trees remain.


Amid a thousand desolate
mountains and glowering
clouds of bleak November
suddenly a snowflake
and then another


youth, age
life, death
good, evil
here or there
truth and
transformation
lie at the center
of things


Leaning on my
walking staff
I watch the waves
and ripples play
in random
arabesques
no more ‘real’
than I


frigid moon glistening white
somewhere a night bird cries
leaves, clouds, and mountains
all become tangled in the
    Wintry blast


misty mountain legions
marching row on row
one old road runs through
Winter beauty and Time

              --- b. e. adams (11/29/2013)

© Copyright 2013 Bruce E. Adams Jr. - All Rights Reserved
JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
1 posted 2013-11-30 09:19 PM


fine writing...James
EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02
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2 posted 2013-12-03 08:09 PM


finely chiseled words from wintery thoughts!
Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
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So. El Monte, California
3 posted 2013-12-04 05:54 AM


I wish I could hang the wintry canvas that comes to mind when I read this on the light blue wall in my house.
                        Ida

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