Winds of a Frozen Wasteland
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Author's Notes: "Winds of a Frozen Wasteland" is a collaborated Unrhymed Couplet that Liam McDaid and I had worked on together and had completed on May 1, 2016. Liam had posted our poem here first over a week ago. Both of us thought that the vivid imagery and the style of the diction of this particular poem combined very well to produce and portray a quite positive message of life, hope, and renewal -- blessed by Heaven's purest light from God Himself. Life and its continual renewal, under the guise of "dewdrops" as "those teardrops of life," reflect a devout sanctity even in this "Frozen Wasteland." The wondrous power and genius of God are always omnipresent. (Gary Bateman - May 12, 2016) (Unrhymed Couplet)
Categories: allegory, analogy, god, heaven, metaphor, passion, and symbolism.
Winds of a Frozen Wasteland
Winds blowing down the mountain silver capped so cold,
Howling fiercely with a herculean ferocity rarely ever seen.
A cold snap cuts straight and deep now to one’s very bones,
As one’s body trembles tremulously teetering toward a fall.
Beloved baby black crows roost inside their snug warm nest,
As a hail-driven breath spits its hardened bullets piercing now.
On this frozen wasteland of one’s soul—a lone rooster crows,
Seeing, feeling soft sunlight rays stroking his proud chest pure.
He’s puffed up now breathing boldly the brisk cold morning air;
Singing with wondrous conviction true of daylight’s awakening.
This lone rooster knows the gifts of nature’s frozen wasteland,
As the warm sun’s ebullient eyes flash bright inside dark jewels.
A crystal fountain baptized with Heaven’s own purest light,
Appears as the sun warms a land frozen nightly by the winds.
Dewdrops cometh forth as those teardrops of life growing anew,
With brightest beginnings for God’s hallowed frozen wasteland!
Gary Bateman and Liam McDaid, A Collaborated Poem
Copyright © All Rights Reserved – May 1, 2016
(Unrhymed Couplet)
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2016
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