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EvocativeVerse2
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since 2003-09-10

Posts 1279

0 posted 2005-04-28 11:25 PM

Winter Does Not Slumber

Inclemency has awakened,
and well-known paths are new made,
furrowed with iciness,
and bucking for the chance to tumble youthful boot heels.

This permafrost that owns pavement,
has oozed up from the nadir,
through loam,
muck and uncharted adamantine,
to arise like some sleepless giant,
a god amongst men.

Descend half-grown and eyeless into the obscure,
and ‘tis there you will find his beginnings.
The armed force of liquid that gathers in these buried grottos,
that traces veiled arteries up to roadbed,
pushing asphalt skyward with glacial fingers.

They say there’s a reservoir in the recesses of the planet,
a foundation of entombed hoarfrost that clasps frigid thoroughfares,
and rends them as effortlessly as frozen water crushes the shivery,
enshrouded hardwoods.

(I can testify to that.)

Winter does not slumber…
for I have perceived it,
when frost clefts soil,
culls damage,
a clandestine defiance,
a sightless thing made savage,
made divine.

A Romantic Heart
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-03

Posts 5496
Forever In Your Heart

1 posted 2005-04-29 12:26 PM

Devine words...from a heart that does not slumber...

~ARH

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2005-04-29 05:27 AM

enjoyed this Kevin

good to read you again

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

3 posted 2005-04-29 05:53 AM

Very nice, Kevin

There are reasons for permafrost, one is , so a poet might express their feelings about it, the other can remain unknown.

But I am positive it has a reason, and we should fight to see that it remains..

No matter what the petro-kings say, lies protect their short term gains....

Global warming is a fact, and their ignorance
is but a shield to assure them incresed fortunes.

----------ice
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Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

4 posted 2005-04-29 02:59 PM

Brrrrrrrrrrr - after summer like days here, the temperatures dropped to the 30s - oy! One thing about the frosty king, though, even though I love the summer better - he sure is a handsome fellow

Enjoyed this Kevin -

Susan

If I wander far enough, long enough, will I finally know . . .

froggy
Senior Member

since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
Michigan

5 posted 2005-04-29 03:27 PM

I love this piece.

;-)

Amour Vous

<^^> Today the pond....Tomorrow the world

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