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Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

0 posted 2001-03-21 11:58 PM

The wind has seized me with a shout,
turned my umbrella inside out,
torn the hat from off my hair.
Carried it away somewhere.
It's sent me stumbling down the street
and splashed cold water on my feet.
Whipped my clothes to left and right.
Made of me a sloppy sight.
I just can't take it anymore
and so I duck into a store.
Call a taxi. Who can stand
when winds of march assault the land?

Betty Lou Hebert
Previously published by Moosebound Press

[This message has been edited by Trillium (edited 03-22-2001).]

RMW
Senior Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

1 posted 2001-03-22 01:29 PM

Trillium,

This is really quite vivid. Simple, yet "splashed" with description. Thanks for sharing the experience.

Bob

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2001-03-22 11:31 PM

You vividly describe the March winds. I have been wanting to get out into the garden, the sun is shining but the wind is icy. Soon! Joyce

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

3 posted 2001-03-23 11:23 AM

Ah, you are not far from the NW. I thought you walking beside me. March so welcome, yet unpredictable.

"I am not now that which I have been."

Elizabeth

Moderator

Member Ascendant

since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

4 posted 2001-03-23 11:29 AM

Looks like March is coming in like a lion!

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

5 posted 2001-03-23 02:03 PM

RMW: Thanks for your comments. This really happened to me in Seattle a few years back. It ruined my umbrella and almost ruined me too!

Betty Lou Hebert

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

6 posted 2001-03-23 02:04 PM

Thanks Joyce! I wrote this about an experience I had one day in Seattle awhile back. In March and a howling wind! The wind is icy here too and I have not started doing anything in the yard.

Betty Lou Hebert

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

7 posted 2001-03-23 02:06 PM

Julian: Thanks for commenting. I do live in North Idaho, but the locale of the poem was Seattle. I guess from your comment, you are familiar with the area?

Betty Lou Hebert

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

8 posted 2001-03-23 02:09 PM

Elizabeth: Thanks for commenting.

Betty Lou Hebert

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