Dark and lonely,
Trees like ghostly shadows
Outline the streets and avenues
Ghostly and ethereal,
Your branches bow lightly
In the summer you offer us shade
But in the winter,
Your twisted arms
Like ghost gnarled fingers
Laugh, tease, and taunt us,
For you are the master
As you bare your wintry arms,
Offering us no protection
In winter's silent sleep,
And you know all too well
We long to see your branches
Abound with lush green buds and growth,
With lavender lilacs
And we may inhale the heady fragrance of sweet apple blossoms
Captivated and Intoxicated,
By Earth's green beauty
Yet you are still majestic
In your winter's enchantment of grandeur,
As your stark branches tease us
Knowing we will patiently await
For your flowering branches
In sweet anticipation of spring
For God's handiwork ~
Author notes
A contest entry
- WINTER by Rhythm Child.
400 points, ended January 11, 41 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What did you think
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Excellent
Wonderful tribute with plenty of imagery and emotion. Great job. Don
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thankyou for entering. I hope you enjoy the contest and have fun.
take care
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Rhythm Child
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Loved this, Sis!
Lovely poem!
Best of Luck in the contest!
Much Love!
<3 Maureen
One suggestion: 4th last line..either "we will patiently await your flowering branches"..or...
"we patiently wait for your flowering branches"
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Wonderful
What a terrific write. Captures winter so well. Best of luck in the contest.
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beautiful I loved your imagery and flow thank you for sharing good luck inthe contest
maralisa
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Beauty~
Oh My Word this is a Gem Sis~ Love how You penned this
The images bring forth a smile
Yay!!! Lovely~
Woot!!!!!!
Thank You for sharing Your Talent and Spirit~
Many blessings to You in the contest Sweet One
Best wishes too
with much love & light~ Desire~*~
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A wonderful poem, Sis... reminding us that the starkness of those baren branchess is only a prelude of it's beauty to come.
Excellent
love and
Dee
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This is beautiful, I love the winter. I really enjoy this part of the poem: In your winter's enchantment of grandeur,
As your stark branches tease us
Knowing we will patiently await
For your flowering branches
In sweet anticipationof spring
For God's handiwork~
This is simply lovely.
Thanks for sharing. Melody -
lol this one confused me.
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Of course it's okay to enter it. i think it's beautiful. It flowed so well even though it did not rhyme, which is usually hard to do, or at least it is for me. The way you described everything was just so fantastic. I've never seen a true winter, that i can remember anyways. This, along with the featured picture, helped to give me a beautiful picture of it in my head. Great job on this poem. It's gorgeous.
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