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On a Winternoon
~
In a most, colorful shade of brightness
on a winternoon;
with the shadows hardly bothering, at all;
the air's got a bite
as day ready's for night,
causing mercury levels to fall.
~
There's this chilliness inside the brightness
on a winternoon;
continuing to persist, to convince;
on a journey, Sol goes
causing shadows to grow,
one can watch Sol retreat, if one squints.
~
The colors are fading from the brightness
on a winternoon;
the day trades all of it's clouds, for night's stars;
be you with family, or friend
the day's activities end,
animating our windowed restaurants, and bars.
~
So we slide through the crisp in the brightness
on a winternoon;
and vividly night's canopy gets raised;
time moseys on
soon yielding our next dawn,
and quietly, we'll all start over, unfazed.
~
Comments
wesley snow
Mon, 2011-12-26 22:00
Hmmm.
Okay, I read this one a little differently. Instead of immediately saying to myself... "you're not supposed to use a comma before and", I instead read the poem using the punctuation to guide me in my momentary pauses. I liked the effect.
"animating our windowed restaurants, (pause and think) and bars."
I'm not sure if this is a finished methodology, but I see ever more clearly what you are experimenting with. It worked in this poem. And the squiggly dashes in between stanzas is a trick I use.
The line breaks are beautiful and the whole thing gave me a spooky sort of feeling over an icy sunset, a cold, cold, night and just another sunrise.
wesley
W. H. Snow
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docmaverick
Tue, 2011-12-27 03:19
So, there it is...there....
...oh, snowman delight ! You were able, (chiefly due to your open-ended, irreverent state of mind) and your inclination towards irrelevevent, nonsensically, rhyming poetry....to catch a minute glimpse into what propels it's exhausting head up, from my page...calling itself poetry, and SAW WHAT I MEANT FOR IT TO BE !
Thanx, for just "that".
extremely sincerely,
your friend in rhyme;
doc.
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