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Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

0 posted 2001-11-30 08:14 AM

* WINTERTIDE *
By: Mutington and Noah Eaton
11/29/01

Each ice-feathered pattern of uniquely formed design,
Paints our frosted window pane announcing wintertime,
While blue-gray shadows of crooked wind whipped branches,
Dance upon our cabin wall in splendid silent mime.
I heard you whistling to the hare while splitting frozen wood.
Two cardinals landed near you on a naked icy limb,
They sang to you in unison as was their joyous whim,
While I watched the ivory snowflakes fall to fill your hat's wide brim...
And the picture of winter's casted beauty..
.made me feel so good.

The half-moon draggles over cashmere quilts outside our cabin walls
Threaded with acorns scattering about limber hillsides
Young woodpeckers slip out of their knotholes to play hide-and-seek
Swaying in the mysterious gale of the wolfs cry at the onyx twilight
Silver spoons of dawn reflect a pale-yellow incandescence
Iridescent spears pierce the gray fog of the morning
The stellar jay and chickadee warble to this sweet serenity
As cotton plates break gently against these fields of wintergreen
Where I can hear the icicles humming
The canon of winters birth

Let us sit now.. by the golden glowing hearth's warm flame,
As umber chestnuts slowly roast, and we just reminisce
Of all the seasons we have spent..how quickly winter came
And sip our mugs of cocoa blend enjoying life's sweet bliss.
Let's listen to the Hoot Owl call from just beyond the glen,
Then Nightingales join him in song..a chorus to begin.
They serenade the woodland deer and all their sleepy kin.
They stop to watch a shooting star, then start their song again.
You'll place another heavy log to slowly burn all night..
.and kiss me in the softened hues of winter's blue moonlight.

Wreath me in your scarf and caress my warm moist lips softly
For I will keep you warm in the hearth of every blizzard
As we watch the snow owls come and coo their velvet symphony
Tasting blackberry cobbler with a glass of egg nog whilst the winter wizard
Taps his starlit wand against the dark sapphire dusk skies
As ice fairies chant in fortissimo, skating across the icy lake
As we gaze through the tapestry of each single snowflake
Hearing children giggle outside and snow angels spread their wings and fly
With arms wide open, I share these winter tidings
A time of sharing, a time of giving, a time of finding

And as I laid my head for slumbered rest
I held the memory of the day inside
The distant northern star gleemed on the crest
As I watched a window's view...of Wintertide!
And as I prayed to my sweet Lord
That one day Heaven's gates I'd ford..
I thanked Him for the day, and then I sighed.

Mutington & Singing Sparrow

Irish Rose
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since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

1 posted 2001-11-30 08:19 AM

This is supreme poetry. Bravo....bravo

Kathleen (Kay)
"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

2 posted 2001-11-30 09:27 AM

A lovely duet of words and willing minds, eager pens...

I enjoyed this Very Much!

Startime
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since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

3 posted 2001-11-30 09:36 AM

Stunningly beautiful. You two have done an extremely good job writing this poem together. You weave an incredible vision that pleases the senses. BRAVO!!!