Above this covered place the north wind plays;
Her frigid breath bids fall its last goodbyes;
What comfort lingers here, retreats with days,
While pallid beams ascend on piercing eyes.
Her shadows stir fell warnings in the skies,
As winds rush eagerly to fill cold graves;
Her fingers grabbing leaves, as autumn dies,
To crush all hopes in grottos and dank caves.
How cruel, her tears lash down, her fury raves,
So desp'rate wooded limbs catch shiv'ring colds;
To tear each sweat soaked frozen bough that braves
To bear her vengeful rue: no reason holds.
Her wheeping howl of fury further sews
Her cries, but sudden mercies summon snows...
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Written December 15th, 2005
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winter is one of my favourite seasons . . . your description is very nicely executed . . .it shows the pain of winter yet the hope of snow.
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Excellent poem with twists.
Rhyming is very good and imageries ... marvellous.
Best wishes,
manoj
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A beautiful description of winter's arrival and methinks a very good example of the Spenserian sonnet. ~Jim
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A very lovely sonnet, one of my favorite forms. I looked at several of your writes and you seem to very adept and versatile with several poetic forms. I salute your ability to write well in several forms. This piece invokes some beautiful frigid imagery and the rhyming is not at all forced. It kept a nice meter throughout and kept well to the form. Another beautiful write. Take care and Have fun. Steve
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AWSOME
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here's your I O U
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silly silly me, I will be the first to admit I know next to nothing with grammer and such, but I do try, I read it as tear ( cry) thanx davidz
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"To tear each sweat soaked frozen bough that braves"
I mean tear (rhymes with bear) as in to rip or shred.
unfortunately "tear" as in ripping and "tear" as in crying are spelled the same way.
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How cruel, her tears lash down, her fury raves
love it!!
this is insainly sadlt beautiful davidz
I think you have a typo
"To tear each sweat soaked frozen bough that braves"
did you mean tear as in cry or tare as in shread?
otherwise, beautiful..I also think here witht his one its short enough where you can space the lines out some, maybe do that thig we played with the other day.. give it room to breath and relax.. I can show you if you would like.
~Waiting
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very awsome poem i really liked it keep it up
xoxoxAmandaxoxox
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