Groundhog Day

This February will not usher spring,
wisteria like grapes hung on their roods;
more pewter shadows does the season bring.
Now I've misplaced all the beatitudes

to lambent grasses flocking on the mount
as spring green creepers tendril up the posts,
the lilac blossoms teeming like a fount
of amulets to stay the latent ghosts

that haunt as far as April with their rime.
As Puxatawny Phil goes under ground
I've six more weeks of gelid hush to mime
the turgid verses of this numbing round.

I rummage blessings as the winter girds,
yet somehow can't remember any words.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018



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Date: 2/28/2018 6:50:00 PM
Hello Dale, we are having Spring type weather here, and it began in February the last week. I like your sonnet. have a nice evening my friend.
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Date: 2/19/2018 6:46:00 PM
Great sonnet Dale, your vocabulary and how you use it astounds;-)
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Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 2/19/2018 7:03:00 PM
Thanks so much, Keith!
Date: 2/15/2018 11:12:00 PM
Superb write, Dale, from every aspect ... I must fav this one! I am never disappointed when I click on your work - it is ALWAYS a blessing! Congrats, my friend! :-)
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Date: 2/13/2018 8:29:00 PM
Belated congrats to you on a fine write about your yearning for a shorter winter; hopefully your 6 more weeks of it will fly by quickly Dale!~Che :)
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Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 2/13/2018 8:55:00 PM
Thanks, Cheryl!
Date: 2/9/2018 3:33:00 PM
Wonderful work Dale and congratulations...
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Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 2/9/2018 4:18:00 PM
Thanks, Charlie!!
Date: 2/9/2018 8:48:00 AM
Congrats on your win, Dale. Well done.
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Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 2/9/2018 8:51:00 AM
Thanks, Line.
Date: 2/8/2018 4:18:00 PM
So much beauty and surprises in your words! Congrats, Dale!
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Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 2/8/2018 4:22:00 PM
Thank you, Kim!
Date: 2/8/2018 3:25:00 PM
Well-deserving of the win, Dale. As I put on my big coat and gloves, I think of distant spring! Janice
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Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 2/8/2018 3:47:00 PM
Thanks, Janice.
Date: 2/8/2018 1:05:00 PM
Wow! There's a texture, thick. Delicious poetry. Congrats on your win! A fave for me :) xomo!
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Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 2/8/2018 1:07:00 PM
Thanks so much, Maureen!
Date: 2/6/2018 1:57:00 PM
What a wonderful winter sonnet, the use of colour in your poetry is becoming your trademark Dale. I must watch groundhog day I've never seen it yet read many poems about it! :-) hugs Jan xx
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Date: 2/6/2018 2:43:00 PM
Thanks, Jan!!
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