Hi Sally,
I'm just back from France nd was intrigued by Mist 2 here. I think it better
than the first one. Why? I can't really explain. It has more power and
movement somehow.
bw
James
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New Sub: Mist II
>Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:18:18 +0100
>
>This is an entirely different poem from the last
>
>
>Mist (II)
>
>Here comes the mist,
>sweeping through the trees,
>whitening summer dawn.
>
>Shapes of poplar,
>chestnut, a grove of oaks
>succumb to its swirl.
>
>I am asked what mist is,
>why enveloping, how
>I use it in metaphor.
>
>It has rolled away,
>white revealing green.
>Colour grows into morning.
>
>Mist of memory, from which
>the shapes of trees
>come back to me,
>
>it clings to secrets
>till dawn's slant sun
>clothes them in roselight
>
>- each branch, every tree -
>a drifting boundary
>beyond whose blind I see.
>
>Sally Evans
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