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foggisan asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Do you feel the cold at this time of year?

Threadbare mists advance

Infiltrating the treeline

Creating a landscape of wraiths,

Spectres, tree-skeletons.

A muslin veil over

A half-world of

Soft shadows and

Sensed shapes,

Frost-rimed ephemera..

Fog flows up the valley

On ponderous lion's paws

A visual avalanche

Of silent white

Pillowed on the land

Sound and vibrancy

Choked off, stymied,

Hidden from view

In a sepulchre of

Swirling purest samite.

Timeless limbo

Holding off the sun

Until the light fades

And ice forms.

Winter reigns.

Update:

Tony, I always associate samite with the beautiful, almost glowing white altar cloth that was used for High Mass and Benediction at my school Church during the sixties. It was, I believe, actually a true samite cloth with flecks of gold along the edge. This was the image I was thinking of when I looked down from the building site where I work as the valley below was silently flooded by mist and fog. I appreciate the comments, thank you. The comparison with Tennyson is somewhat giddying!! Lol!

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  • Alobar
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    It's too cold to turn the pages of the dictionary, damn it!

    Your vocabularitory muscles serve you well with this write. And I'm so pleased I just created the word vocabularitory.

  • Tony h
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Good stuff! Lovely imagery. I love it.

    Like Tennyson you seem to think that Samite is a gauzy fabric, don't you? It isn't. Dictionary definition is a heavy silk fabric often with gold interwoven.

    Still, making the same mistake as Tennyson can't be all bad.

  • 1 decade ago

    Belissimo!

  • The poem is totally cool. (pun and Cali -speak intended)

    I see you sitting with a few fellow hard hats

    writing this verse, shielding your face from

    pieces of sandwiches......:)

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  • 1 decade ago

    No cos I'm in Cambodia at the moment.

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm cold but not this cold! Your poem painted a chilly, but lovely picture.

  • jenny
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Brrrrr, yes................Winter reigns/rules.

    Coldest winter we have had in several years here.

    Your words of description are unusual, truely paint a picture of winter's

    bitterness, Strong pen.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    um its the middle of summer.......xl

    Source(s): aust is home!!!
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    sssssss

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