BlueIris
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Sun Apr-27-08 09:21 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/27/08 |
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Edited on Sun Apr-27-08 09:23 PM by BlueIris
"Four Clouds"
It has been a cold April, the kind of spring you don't walk out in. Blue-red camellias decay and fall, collect behind the fence and decompose. Overhead
a chilled moon rides into 3 P.M., gray random bubble of the night floating through the afternoon, a prism in reverse, swallowing the light.
Easter's late this year. Four clouds rise and gather, move across the sun, uncertain, slow as old relinquished gods flowing into a vacuum—last of the leashmen.
Holy Thursday: a high of thirty-eight. The failing sky is absolutely slate.
—Carol Frith
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Sun Apr-27-08 09:46 PM
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1. I loves me the sonnet! |
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Sun Apr-27-08 10:07 PM
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I cannot write them to save my life, but—pretty.
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Sun Apr-27-08 10:46 PM
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Oh, this is beautiful!
I love the imagery, and the rhythm of the sonnet...
Just perfect!
Thank you...
:hug:
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Mon Apr-28-08 07:26 AM
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Mon Apr-28-08 07:41 AM
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5. It definitely feels like that kind of a spring. |
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This is nice. usually spring is described in wondeful terms, but this really captures how bleak it can be. Going from the gloom of winter, to the wet depression of spring and probably on to the hot oppression of summer without getting a break in between.
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Mon Apr-28-08 07:58 AM
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6. It snowed in Western Oregon on April 17. |
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It has never snowed in Oregon later than February in my life. Which is insane, and made me want to post this.
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