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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.
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!
9 Answers
- AlobarLv 51 decade agoFavourite answer
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 hLv 71 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
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......:)
- C.S.ScotkinLv 61 decade ago
I'm cold but not this cold! Your poem painted a chilly, but lovely picture.
- jennyLv 71 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.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
um its the middle of summer.......xl
Source(s): aust is home!!! - Anonymous1 decade ago
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