New wordle words courtesy of Paula, at Brenda's The Sunday Whirl:
ignorant, spurn, eternity, drawers,
balls, year, rind, sting,
months, housewives, subtracting, fall
Eternity In A Drawer
A branch of dark gray willow,
rind rough and furrowed,
tap-taps against the window.
Late season flower petals fall,
litter the ground in the ambering light.
The phone rings once, twice,
the sound anxious and stinging.
She feels things shifting and
resettling. January waits,
months swiftly subtracting until,
blissfully ignorant, the new year
arrives in all its neonate splendor.
Deterred for now, eternity hides
away in a bottom dresser drawer.
15 comments:
Yes, those months leading to January do indeed subtract one by one until January finally is upon us. As I see it they subtract way too fast. Sigh.
I love the sounds throughout. Time seems to fly for me these days.
I love the imagery in this; how it captures the passage of time.
A truly wonderful write!
Time seems to have truly speed-ed up now (for me anyway) The weeks are flying by, let alone the days.
There are some great lines in this and some lovely imagery too.
I love 'eternity waits tucked away in the bottom dresser drawer'
I love poems that cause me to make a sound something like 'hmh' right at the beginning. It means I have been intrigued at what is presented, and the poem holds its interesting insight. Love the turning line: 'She feels things shifting and
resettling'.
I particularly like "blissfully ignorant, the new year arrives". Very nice.
I really like those first three lines...though my willow will never tap at my window. She's way down by the creek. Another line I liked was ...in the ambering light - a wonderful sunset image.
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Interesting that we both have tapping in our pieces, eh? I love "ambering light." It is perfect.
Ha! Sorry, Marianne. Tap tap isn't in my wordle poem, but another piece I wrote for Trifecta today. Oops.
Really like the feel you have captured in your choice of words. Time is passing and you make that present somehow. Some wonderful imagery here 'ambered light", and love that last line,
Elizabeth
I like the mood you created, Marianne. A mood piece again.
Nice passage of time, Marianne. Lovely.
Pamela
The rapid turn of calendar pages were never so succinctly expressed though wordle words. A wonderful romp.
We leave that dresser drawer shut...thinking we are safe. Great write.
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