Get Your Premium Membership

The Ides of March

Poet's Notes
(Show)

Become a Premium Member and post notes and photos about your poem like Emile Pinet.


Upon a silver slate sky of alabaster and aquamarine, floats a formidable flotilla of charcoal-colored clouds. And on this mild, melancholy mid-March day they dawdle, dribbling drops of rain in sporadic Spring showers. Winter's white wonderland, seasonally salted with brindled blotches, magically melts away, revealing rough-woven, ragged patches of grassy green. When Winter's frozen grip gives way bulbs freed from frosty tombs, are awakened by the tap, tap, tap, of April's tepid tears. And straightaway, snowdrops, crocuses, and tulips suddenly start sprouting, simultaneously sending shoots skyward. Color breaks the blandness of this dull day as a robin redbreast abruptly appears defying drizzling drops of grey with its crimson chest, ornately on display.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2022




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 4/25/2022 10:09:00 AM
Back with congratulations on your win Emile. Your poetic creativity and use of words is on full display in this poem! Loved re-reading it! Blessings of the Easter season to you!
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/25/2022 10:57:00 AM
Thanks, Sam, as always, I appreciate your comments my friend, Emile.
Date: 4/24/2022 1:41:00 AM
Excellent, congratulations.
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/24/2022 7:21:00 AM
Thanks, Terry, I appreciate your comments, my friend, Emile.
Date: 4/22/2022 8:37:00 PM
Great season painting with beautiful imagery. Congratulations!
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/23/2022 9:47:00 AM
Thanks, Christuraj, I appreciate your comments, my friend, Emile.
Date: 4/22/2022 12:54:00 PM
Masterfully-done piece with wonderful alliteration and imagery, Emile:-) Heartiest congratulations on your win in my contest!
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/23/2022 9:47:00 AM
Thanks, Edward, I appreciate the placement and your comments, my friend, Emile.
Date: 4/1/2022 12:21:00 PM
Enjoyed reading this lovely poem. Congratulations!
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/2/2022 7:26:00 AM
Thanks, Faye, I appreciate your comments my friend, Emile.
Date: 4/1/2022 12:20:00 PM
Congratulations, Emile, on win! I enjoyed the poem. Blessings ~ Debra
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/2/2022 7:25:00 AM
Thanks, Debra, I appreciate your comments my friend, Emile.
Date: 4/1/2022 9:25:00 AM
Congratulations Emile! This is a marvelous portrait of spring and it moves like bursting blooms and flowers shooting up through unfrozen ground. Love the alliteration and movement and all the colors. Blessings!
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/2/2022 7:24:00 AM
Thanks, Sam, I love spring, it means life is in renewal and that never fails to raise my spirits, my friend, Emile.
Date: 4/1/2022 8:42:00 AM
Congratulations on your podium win in Strand's Premier contest with this gorgeous poem, Emile. Very, very deserving. I loved it.
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/2/2022 7:22:00 AM
Thanks, Milit, you always manage to cheer me up my friend, Emile.
Date: 4/1/2022 5:58:00 AM
Congrats! Beautiful sight, I envisioned as vividly as you put it in crafty words!
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/1/2022 7:06:00 AM
Thanks, Margarita, I appreciate your comments my friend, Emile.
Date: 4/1/2022 2:25:00 AM
Congrats! Thanks for sharing this, making me see with vividness "... crocuses, and tulips simultaneously start sprouting, suddenly sending shoots skyward." God bless you.
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/1/2022 7:05:00 AM
Thanks, Beata, I appreciate your comments my friend, Emile.
Date: 3/31/2022 10:28:00 PM
Beautiful portrayal scenic beauty of Mid March. Congratulations!
Login to Reply
Pinet Avatar
Emile Pinet
Date: 4/1/2022 7:04:00 AM
Thanks, Christuraj, I appreciate your comments my friend, Emile.

Book: Shattered Sighs