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Click hereA redbird sang for a mate today
high in a maple across the way
Where sap still drips for nights are cold
While morning sun breaks winter's hold
through melting drifts
Liver spots
grow
I read this and I like the rhymeing. The words are pretty. I am sorry if you feel so old like winter dyeing.
I only know snow from the mountains, maybe you should come to California and be brown all over not just spoty!! It is warm and birds sing all year. Old Man Winter dont come here!!! ;)
brillant inversion of everything that is stock about spring.
The aging of winter...
The newness of writing from this view.
I love the idea of the earth appearing through the snow being likened to liver spots on Old Man Winter's hand. Wonderful.
Tess
I found this poem sweet. Maybe bittersweet. Like it a lot, Ryb. And you know what a prissy bitch I am! Thanks, sir!
Boo
anticipate the emergence of liver spots, it's always a welcome sight when it accompanies the spring thaw. Never really percieved it this way.
Your poem was mentioned on the thread
"New Poems Reviews"
thanks for the exhilarating literary journey ...(~_~) Art~
and different...phrasing paused and made me take in...liked lots...blue
I found the content of the poem AND the "hand spread" arrangement of the piece to be both clever and unique. This was great - and so was finding out when I held My hand up to the screen to confirm the "handprint" of words, that I don't have any liver spots...yet. lol Enjoyed this one alot, Rybka <smile>
Vixxx
but never thought of it as the back of an old man's hands and yet the image you present suddenly makes it wonderfully obvious. very good.
k.
Ah, this is some good rhyming and good poetry. I don't like liver spots but they're beautiful in this poem.