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Butterflies of Snow: Hexsonnetta

Lightly flutter snowflakes as on the breeze they go, these butterflies of snow. Spiderwebs the frost makes when the pewter day breaks to snare them as they blow. This window the webs ring the porthole in the frost on which the flecks are tossed is tatted like the wings of earwigs in the spring. The glass becomes embossed with ornaments of ice and blooms of edelweiss.

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Barbara Barry-Nishanian

Date: 2/18/2018 4:57:00 PM

I can see the pewter sky breaking!..Great visual. Glad I met you. Congrats.

Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 2/18/2018 5:08:00 PM

Thanks for reading, Barbara!

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 PM

I enjoyed this even more on second reading Dale. Congratulations on your second place win with this gem. It is going into my Faves! : )

Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 1/31/2018 12:26:00 PM

Thank you so very much, Connie!

Line Gauthier

Date: 1/30/2018 11:57:00 PM

Superbly done, Dale. A well deserved win. Bravo.

Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 1/31/2018 8:46:00 AM

Thanks you, Line!

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib

Date: 1/30/2018 10:06:00 PM

Gorgeous imagery, silky smooth eloquent, just wonderful Dale. Congratulations on your win! xomo

Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 1/31/2018 8:46:00 AM

Thanks so much, Maureen!

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 1/30/2018 7:59:00 PM

So beautiful! Fave! Congrats!

Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 1/30/2018 8:07:00 PM

Thanks so much, Kim!

Gregory Richard Barden

Date: 1/22/2018 9:59:00 AM

Gorgeous, write, Dale! I am a "newbie" to poetry, and just beginning to work on, (and learn with competency), the many forms and their details and nuances. You have a mastery of so many, and you are one of my primary resources for style and form. I never wrote a Sonnet until about a week ago, (sadly), and I am beginning to understand why they are so popular (to write) with other poets, and the Hexsonnetta is particularly beautiful - THIS one exquisite! Thanks for letting me "learn" from you!

Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 1/22/2018 10:06:00 AM

Thanks, Greg. I am still learning myself and only began studying the various forms six or seven months ago.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/21/2018 7:24:00 PM

This is gorgeous and I enjoy seeing the hexsonnetta so well executed by a sonneteer such as yourself. Thanks what you said about my sonnets being down to earth. AT least half of my sonnets are that way. I just love using the sonnet meter to tell a tale or to make an ordinary situation seem just a bit less ordinary.

Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 1/21/2018 7:33:00 PM

Thanks, Andrea! I don't think anyone's sonnets are as accessible to readers as yours.