Winter Flower

[Billy]

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.

[Kenneth2816]

Good use of imagery. Like "sun's dormant self."

[RamanathanSiva]

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.

[BobBradshaw]

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

[Michael (MV)]

 
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)

 
 
 
 
 

[Billy]

Thanks Ken, Bob, Siva, Michael