Ach, sheer poetic brilliance, dazzling Gene! You have captured "the red wheelbarrow effect" more effectively than even the... red wheelbarrow! This is like a lens coming into and out of focus, with first the melting frost, then the warm breath on the windowpane and the stillpoint of that star(t)ling drop of blood. Yep, 2011 is gonna be great now you're firmly back in the saddle... YeeHar! :)) xx
The quintessential view of purity and hope as seen in the snow contrasting with the moment by moment game of chance that is the reality of life. The marsh hawk instinctively preying upon the sparrow and "the spot of red in the overnight snow", viewed through the window pane of life's cinematic illusions. Gene, you have refreshed your poetry again just as the new year refreshes. A brilliant rendering crisp with definition. What a difference a year makes. I bid you love and peace my dear friend. Jon Michael
Gene: this has struck a nerve or chord within me, in two ways: one: we just had a workshop on "turns" in poetry - and you've utilized this device here: I think you set a scene in a few lines and the reader is expecting the beauty of snow - but shortly in, of course, there is Mother Nature at her "cruelest" - note that's in quotes - it's just what is. Red "stain" on the white. I had just read Hesse's "The Wolf," a 4 pager from his short stories, and which I guess was what became expanded to The Steppenwolf - and that short story is a metaphor for xenophobia - at the end, one feels so sorry for the last lone starving dying then dead wolf - and yet - the wolves, they had been taking sheep, cows, etc., stuff that kept the people alive - so it's tricky. This predator-prey world is so hard for me to deal with. I like how the poem opens innocuously and closes the same; in the middle is the jolt - it's not overly sentimental - it, like nature, just is. Thank you for sharing this.
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Awesome write, Gene!
Anna
Carole~
Kudos, Gene!
John
Axilea
Love,
Sage
Peace, love and light,
Amber
Wonderful. You can see the morning view and the virgin snow.
Mary
Regis
into your kitchen
watching mother nature
with you...as we sip on coffee
Love & Saigon Cinnamon
Vickie
How wonderous to see or imagine ! Thanks much!