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Doug Pretorius
Member

since 2001-04-08

Posts 81
Ontario, Canada

0 posted 2001-11-20 07:50 PM

Winter Garden
November 20th, 2001
Copyright 2001 Doug Pretorius

The last petal floats along,
on the cold crystal breeze,
flitting back and forth slowly,
carrying our hopes and dreams.
Enough time eventually passes by,
that it gradually descends,
finding its final resting place,
in a white and snowy glen.
The delicate single moment,
that we hold close does arrive,
that petal melts into the snow,
and the smoke fills our eyes.
Coughing and choking we open them again,
and find we're not were we ought to be,
the Winter Garden surrounds us,
and holds us tightly in its trees.
Looking all around this,
wonderful magical world,
we're greeted by our new friend,
who appears to be a giant squirrel!
In this most unusual place,
where nothing seems quite real,
the cool air carries winter's scent,
and we love how it makes us feel.
Grand icy sculptures raise high above,
depicting the Garden's mythic hero's,
frozen forever in this wintery place,
where everything is well below zero.
"We'll make a sculpture of you too,"
the residents sweetly chime,
"You'll have to defeat the Winter Dragon,
but we'll leave that for another rhyme."

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2001-11-20 07:58 PM

Hi Doug! Great write and a perfect picture of ice sculptures up here in Canada. Nice to see yet another fellow poet from Ontario here! Surprising how many here at Passions are from Canada...and a lot from Ontario....as I am.
~warm hugs, Nancy~

~I've loved you forever, in lifetimes before.~

peaches73533
Senior Member

since 2001-11-04

Posts 981
OK, USA

2 posted 2001-11-20 08:04 PM

Great write.Nice imagery.
peaches

Poet deVine

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

3 posted 2001-11-20 08:07 PM

Thank you for a lovely look at something I haven't seen since a child - we don't have much snow or ice here in Arizona.

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

4 posted 2001-11-20 09:16 PM

Very lovely write, Doug. Much enjoyed!

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

5 posted 2001-11-20 09:22 PM

Oh, I really love this imagery! The magic of winter's frozen delights, and the creatures that scurry about at zero and below....I'll keep this poem with other Favorites.

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