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Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2001-04-29 06:50 AM

~ Occasionally,
I take a book to bed, always a fine companion,
The paper seldom cares if I fall asleep amidst the reading.
~ From Winter by James Thomson ( 1700 - 1748 )

Against the window beats; then brisk alights
On warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor,
Eyes all the smiling family askance;
And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is -
Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs
Attract his slender feet.

The cold beats,
Rattling at the window panes,
And the wind,
Then does win,
Access in to warmth obtains,
Dark wing beats.
To the hearth,
Turning with smiling dark eyes,
That asking,
Midst pecking,
Familiar there where crumbs lies,
Taking part;
As despairs sign he remains.

Gloom

Ginners
Member

since 2000-07-22

Posts 339
Mullica Hill, New Jersey

1 posted 2001-04-29 01:34 PM

very gloomy i liked it a lot

"I'll build a wall if we can keep them on the other side"---NIN
"There is no always forever, just this"-the cure

Xeonox

Senior Member

since 2000-04-01

Posts 1764
CA, USA

2 posted 2001-04-30 01:43 AM

very dark.I wrote a poem called Winter, but it does not come close to describe what you describe here. Great work

Ronil (One becomes god only when they have fully understood the role of being a human being.)

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

3 posted 2001-04-30 06:48 AM

Gloom, this is a remarkable piece of poetry..it just has that 'zing' about that some poems have...

wonderful...loved it - into my library it goes..

K

All obscurity starts with a danger:
Your dangers are many. I
Cannot look much but your form suffers
Some strange injury
Sylvia Plath

Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

4 posted 2001-05-01 05:11 AM

Thank you, Ginners
I am pleased that you liked it.

Thank you, Xeonox,
I am glad my ability to convey has touched
A pleasant cord within a reader.

Thank you, Severn,
Your words are very kind,
That you have placed it with in your library
T’is high praise indeed.

Gloom

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