Hi there Arthur,
Hey, have you changed your style when I wasn't looking? I enjoyed this
poem very much, particularly the first stanza, very visual.
CW, Mary :O)
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> January.
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> Here at the year's turning, the darkest time,
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> earth stunned with cold,
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> birds fall unheeded in the night,
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> the fountain's tongues are stilled,
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> snow drifts into corners of the yard,
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> I seem now at the end to which I've always moved.
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> I look back across
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> the bleak atlantic reaches of my life
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> to remember the desolations of before
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> but see only the sunlit miles
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> of snowfilled shires lie fulgent
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> in the long low winter light.
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Maryann Hazen-Stearns
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