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[title] => Winter Adorned
[time] => 2008-11-26 20:28:05
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[bodytext] => Old man winter—for the masochist! Today his winds screeched and hissed, Wherein sylvan claws flayed my coach. His eye in the moon did broach My compunction, Though tonight the crescent did shun Upon the dark side my remorse. So if he might hear me hoarse From sorry litany, Let winter grant me amnesty. In autumn the full crescent yoke Bore no shielding, fogging cloak; The moon observant, crisp, and clear Witnessed my crime in autumn’s drear And sealed the sights it saw that day, But I must think winter's view passé. So let him listen With newly summoned acumen And not play coy after my repertoire. For autumn I have gone in far: To the season— That this autumn I did not reap The every pod, the every drupe, That I had let some hang On you, unflattering, Without harvest, The crops gone to waste, That I had cast off pulpy seeds, That fruit had gone unwrung for meads, To bathe in water and atone, To placate old man winter’s throne, I tried to take the sins and rinse Them in ablutions, and mince The cold daily statements which emanate From your laughing, faceless slate, But old man winter Permits no ice to splinter. [comments] => 0 [counter] => 151 [topic] => 27 [informant] => screwge [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 12 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => NaturePoetry )
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