Winter Flower
December sunset, all-day grey turns
faded pink at the edges like a washed-
out peony drooping, barely above ground.
So early, as if day is pruned before it
blooms. Night reigns for a few months.
Days wander between dark and half-
light. Ambivalent, I lie late in bed like a
dead flower pressed in a book. If there's
a winter flower, it's the moon--face
blooming in the cold, dark brew of sky
like an iceberg floating in a crystal
bowl of stars--the sun's dormant self.
Winter Flower
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Re: Winter Flower
Good use of imagery. Like "sun's dormant self."
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Re: Winter Flower
Days wander between dark and half-
light.
and this
If there's
a winter flower, it's the moon--white,
burning in the cold, dark brew of sky
like an iceberg floating in a crystal
bowl of stars, the sun's dormant self.
light.
and this
If there's
a winter flower, it's the moon--white,
burning in the cold, dark brew of sky
like an iceberg floating in a crystal
bowl of stars, the sun's dormant self.
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Re: Winter Flower
Good imagery throughout...just stellar
So early, as if day is pruned before it
blooms.
I lie late in bed like a
dead flower pressed in a book. If there's
a winter flower, it's the moon--white,
burning in the cold, dark brew of sky
like an iceberg floating in a crystal
bowl of stars
So early, as if day is pruned before it
blooms.
I lie late in bed like a
dead flower pressed in a book. If there's
a winter flower, it's the moon--white,
burning in the cold, dark brew of sky
like an iceberg floating in a crystal
bowl of stars
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Re: Winter Flower
Hi Bob,
In accord with Bob's observation re the "stellar" imagery -
and it is wonderful how it then metaphorically sees the moon as a flower - luna-fleur
Workshop-consider cluster for "bowl":
like an iceberg floating in a crystal
cluster of stars, the sun's dormant self.
Michael (MV)