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Glenn Logan
Member

since 2001-10-10

Posts 111
Virginia

0 posted 2001-12-11 12:37 PM

It is November of my 52nd year,
and in the early morning light
the season's first strong frost
is undeniable.

                         As I shave off
my weekend beard, flecked
with white and gray hairs, I see
a surprisingly pale sun shining on a
bleached landscape of once-green
grass, now glowing just faintly
green through a thin patina
of sparkling frost.

My beard disturbs me.
When I am well-shaven, its whiteness
is not so evident, and the hair of my head
keeps enough of the bark-brown color that
it had in my youth to fool me sometimes
into thinking:
"I am, well, at least not old!"

The tall, dry weeds of a distant lot have caught
a cap of shining frost like scepters from a child's
Christmas play, and
some golden brown and dry russet leaves
still cling unexpectedly to trees, but
other, softer,
leaves now hang dark green, limp, and wrinkled,
awaiting death
with the melting of the frost.

It is November of my 52nd year.

More of my poems, long and short, are posted at
   http://mywebpage/netscape.com/gloganpoet/gloganpoet.html
   http://www.poetrypages.com/pages/glennlogan
   http://www.geocities.com/glennlogan/index.html

Mother_Earth
Senior Member

since 2000-11-20

Posts 1370
1/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan

1 posted 2001-12-11 02:11 PM

Glenn, thank heavens I don't have a beard, but when the gray and white hairs started on my head I pulled them out. They brought ALL of their friends to help out and now I am mostly white. The frost will melt but believe me the white on your face and head will not. Great poem. ME

emily
Member

since 2000-10-03

Posts 142
USA

2 posted 2001-12-12 06:56 PM

enjoyed this

Emily

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2001-12-12 07:51 PM

What wonderful imagery here, contrasting nature and beard. I especially enjoyed that "bark-brown" hair.

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

4 posted 2001-12-12 07:51 PM

Nicely done Glenn....I relate well to this
in December of my 53rd year....Obviously
you have more hair on top than I do...but
what the heck...

sodpossom
Senior Member

since 2001-06-15

Posts 723
N.C

5 posted 2001-12-12 07:54 PM

I can't relate to the beard part.I'm 33 and can only grow a goetee.Enjoyed the comparison.Nice job!

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