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Open Poetry #11

Cold

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2000-12-15 12:27 PM

C o l d
Virginia Salter

cold
so cold even my icicles
had icicles

streets, houses, lawns
coated in white, white snow

then, Chinook came in
rattled strings of icicles
shrank stalagmites
dripped away stalactites
placed ice sheet
on streets, sidewalks
cars

blow and blow
does it go

as sunshine shouts
at pock-marked surfaces
pelted with tree seeds
looking like bird’s paradise
yet no birds appear
not crow, raven nor cardinal
to feast upon wind’s leaving,
heaving onto the land

and me,
I stand, watching
hatching memories
for the keeping,
sleeping
into winter dreams

© December 15, 2000

Mark Bohannan
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-21

Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song

1 posted 2000-12-15 12:32 PM

Now this one really had some remarkable images pouring into my mind. Wonderful read from you today. Loved the glistening streaks of white a blue in this one.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
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angelswing
Senior Member

since 2000-02-10

Posts 705
United Kingdom

2 posted 2000-12-15 12:34 PM

One of the best poems I have read for a long while . You have a lot of meaning going on here, I really enjoyed it .
Thanks .
L.of.L. Tom .

Don't try, do or do not, there is no try .
- Master Yoda -

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

3 posted 2000-12-15 12:37 PM

How exciting to receive such awesome responses and so quickly! Thank you both so very much!

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