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Winter Sigh

 


Window'd children sigh
warm breath haze ~ cold droplets ply
muddy turtle plays

Scrape ~ Wheel ~ Nose ~ Chomp ~ Swirl
long glass'd faces at the sill
happy turtle's thrill

Lake at grass-high flood
winter snow-melt ~ white-caps gleam
sun-rock dragon dreams

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Nicole Sharon Brown

April 4, 2021 at 11:23 AM

This is truly a beautiful poem. I really enjoyed reading it.

Robert Warlov

April 4, 2021 at 12:21 PM

I was inspired by a Robert Frost line: " . . . to glassed-in children at the sill". I wanted to recapture that image. The rest is invention. Beauty, more than anything else, in my youth, is how poetry trapped me. I recently heard a poet quip; "If you write poetry, it's your fault". Your critique is high praise. Thanks!

Debbie Guzzi

June 8, 2017 at 8:12 PM

Thank you for reading my verses, these are very lighthearted three line poems ;). Light & Love

Robert Warlov

June 13, 2017 at 1:54 PM

thanks to you too Debbie. You are among many truly excellent poets here at the soup. Great to have such a "treasure trove" of modern ( post post-modern? ) work.

Andrea Dietrich

June 3, 2017 at 8:10 PM

This is a very interesting grouping of haiku. I love how they all relate so well to the great title you gave! That last part: sun-rock dragon dreams. LOVE that.

Robert Warlov

June 4, 2017 at 5:43 PM

The children see the turtle playing, their point of view. Then the turtle's sees the children in the window, his POV, and last, the scene is depicted. The turtle thinks of himself as a dragon.

Andrea Dietrich

June 3, 2017 at 8:09 PM

thanks for reading my poems the other day, Robert. I have been so busy but finally am trying to catch up. Let me see what you have here!! (oh, and yes, I am a huge Stephen King fan, are you?)

Robert Warlov

June 4, 2017 at 6:29 PM

I'm busy too- frazzled. I mean to read all your works. They're true, integral, and provide a different, sain view. That's comforting. Read most of King's works until he became a modern Guttenberg. Publishing two to three book a year evinces a pathology. Again, my humble gratitude for your time and thoughts. RW