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Open Poetry #48

Winter Zen (part 2)

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2013-11-29 03:14 PM

All dead leaves and drifting
clouds have blown away.
The birds have vanished
from the Wintry twilight sky.
We lean alone together
these bare-bone trees and I,
in this ancient, silent ‘endless’
   mountain forest
until only the trees remain.

Amid a thousand desolate
mountains and glowering
clouds of bleak November
suddenly a snowflake
and then another

youth, age
life, death
good, evil
here or there
truth and
transformation
lie at the center
of things

Leaning on my
walking staff
I watch the waves
and ripples play
in random
arabesques
no more ‘real’
than I

frigid moon glistening white
somewhere a night bird cries
leaves, clouds, and mountains
all become tangled in the
    Wintry blast

misty mountain legions
marching row on row
one old road runs through
Winter beauty and Time

              --- b. e. adams (11/29/2013)

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2013-11-30 09:19 PM

fine writing...James

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

2 posted 2013-12-03 08:09 PM

finely chiseled words from wintery thoughts!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2013-12-04 05:54 AM

I wish I could hang the wintry canvas that comes to mind when I read this on the light blue wall in my house.
Ida

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