Christmas Roses (and poem: A Spell of Winter)

Merry Christmas to my wonderful flickr friends. May you know peace and joy. (This photo made Explore on December 8, 2008.)

 

 

A Spell of Winter

 

Old death haunts winter

And cold black air clings tight and greedy

To the sere grasses under the hill.

 

The moon travels in other circles tonight

While the wakeful stars,

Inviolate and icy,

Scintillating with silent strengths,

Keep vigil.

 

Trees,

Darker than the besetting air,

Stand with their shivering arms

Thrust naked towards the bitter sky

In frozen supplication.

 

The earth is enchanted

By a spell of winter.

It is frigid and asleep,

But it dreams of consummation.

 

taken from Elementa (Loosey Goosey Press, 2008) by Faith Goble

 

You can read Luan Gaines' review of Elementa at www.curledup.com/elementa.htm

and an interview at www.curledup.com/intfgoble.htm.

 

 

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