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Open Poetry #43

First Winter Storm

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2008-11-26 03:30 PM

                  Ice Storm

Under ominous, tattered, disconsolate
  clouds
flash-frozen to the stark mountain
  tops,
ever-mercurial Autumn has moved on,
without even a backwards glance…
Ancient, multifarious oaks huddle
  together,
rasping their dissuasive discontent
(through these cold, implacable
  woods)
to Winter’s relentless advance.

             --- b. e. adams (11/26/08)

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2008-11-26 03:38 PM

Reading this makes me shiver. It is cold and raining here today too but not this kind of cold. There's a very realistic feel to this one.
Ida

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

2 posted 2008-11-26 03:50 PM

your talent for describing this is amazing...I remember those ice storms...nothing like them (or so I thought until I read your fascinating words)

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2008-11-26 04:00 PM

Yo Secondhanddreampoet,

I remember the great ice storm of 47 in Altoona. No electric or school for two weeks.

It was awful, I would loved to have missed it.

Bobby

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2008-11-26 04:20 PM

Hi Bruce I like the beautiful and powerful imagery of the oaks huddling together...
thank you for the poem

yann

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

5 posted 2008-11-26 05:53 PM

Bruce... I love this !!

love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

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