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Old 01-31-2004, 08:48 PM   #2
Lady Sidhe
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Another one from poetry class...just in case you're wondering, the instructor didn't believe in rhyme, or abstraction in poetry...


Winter Storm

With old, arthritic fingers
the half-naked tree
clutches the dirt-brown
wrinkled leaves,
like remnants of tattered clothing
fluttering in the frigid wind,
as if to shield itself from
the cutting crystal tears
wept by the shivering sky.
A half-cradled bird's nest,
abandoned,
is perched in the crook of Tree's arm,
rocked precariously with each rough breath.
The empty feeder flings back and forth,
like a swing out of control;
The Wind nibbles and chews...
Tree is losing.

28 Oct. 1992
Sidhe
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