Monday, April 9, 2018

Monday's Poetry: "Spring Snow"

by Pa Rock
Poetry Appreciator

It snowed again, though just barely, in the Ozarks yesterday - a lingering proof that calendars are man-made constructs which Mother Nature may override with alarming ease.  Spring has arrived, and yet it snows.  Easter has come and gone, and yet it snows.

"Spring Snow" by Canadian poet Richard Greene not only captured the feeling of a sudden return of winter, it also sent me to the dictionary to master a new word.  "Limns," it turns out, is a depiction or description in painting or words.  Mr. Greene's uses a sparsity of words to describe the event of a spring snow - and he limns his words beautifully.


Spring Snow
by Richard Greene

Wet snow coats
twig, branch and bud.
Against the still black street
the waning season
limns its last words
in bold calligraphy.


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