Winter Notes Poems

Winter bones are rattling.
A late autumn wind is burying the fallen.
Frost stipples the light of dawn.

Storm gulls and hawks
have chased the songbirds away.
My black coat...

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I heard a black bird’s song today
He balanced high on a wire
His dark coat purple in reflection
His voice high and sweet
above the ocean’s roar and
the...

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"Notes on a Wrist" 

the pulse felt
under nibs
of fingertips
translates a life

the semicolan
stretches like 
the devil
hungers 

it can 
wait a long time
eternally feeding you
drip by drip

ever...

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I was in the garden today,
had done some weeding
thinking, if only my favorite
blossoms would have such will 
all their own, drive to overcome 
with less...

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Late Summer sings with lazy voice.
     Autumn turns a new leaf.
Green becomes gold--her story told.
     Winter's echo...

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SPRING NOTES

          I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird
  ...

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Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There...

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Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There...

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Brief notes are possibly now in order
To give shape to order out of disorder.

A sad loneliness can give way
To the peaceful realm of solitude.

When solitude...

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Brief notes are possibly now in order
To give shape to order out of disorder.

A sad loneliness can give way
To the peaceful realm of solitude.

When solitude...

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SEDUCTION OF A MAIDEN   Song Lyrics
   By Victoria Anderson-Throop
        first draft notes penned on...

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The absent moon 
in a tea cup
without milk.

Lips reaching moon 
like a reprimand.
A spider’s kiss.

Unmothered story, 
contempt untitled:
Surface-tension.

The speed of 
space in motion
like winter smoke.

The...

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