Sidney Beck Poet Free verse

Break-Up On the Smolenka

BREAK-UP ON THE SMOLENKA


Sun higher, days brighter,
Miracle of the sun god  -
Hard  hearts  melt :
A cold coming but a warm arrival.

Funeral for old ice floes
Moving slowly hesitantly
Nudging each other gently
Like a crowd at a graveside gathering.

Flat geometric white sheets,
Darker, thinner, as death approaches.
Life’s  jigsaw undone.
Rigid white bodies shrivel,
Transformed from stillness to moving life.

Cold soul of the ice dies,
Garbage stains disappear;
Baptism of new flows,
River is reborn of water warm.

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Note
From the bridge over the Smolenka at this time of year  you 
will see this, as the ice melts.

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James Horn April 6, 2015 at 5:02 AM Very interesting poem with two interesting opposing concepts which are warmth and cold that are diametrically opposed to each other. You have been writing poems for quite a while. How did you get started? Read some of my latest poems. James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran