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Forest.

Stark and skeletal,
barren and bleak;
a winter landscape
in shifting shadow.

Denuded trunks and limbs
stilled in twisted parody.
Icy ground below;
a frozen prison.

No sound here
but creaking wood;
like aged joints
in life’s bitter season.

Yearning naked limbs
seek the sky;
their battle futile
anchored in the tomb.
Posted by badlydrawnstickman on 2008-03-03 20:37:12 | Rating: | Views: 93


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Posted by
expectingtofly
on 2008-03-03 20:57:17
 
Great poem. How about this one...
A Barn in the Wood
A Lonely Petrified Barn.
Profound, Sleeping Barn.
It is Haiku
 
 

Posted by
CavedogRob
on 2008-03-03 22:24:20
 
that is quite good...
 
 

Posted by
erica3
on 2008-03-04 17:25:06
 
this is beautiful stickman :)
 
 

Posted by
smilinirisheyes
on 2008-03-06 21:42:39
 
Hey cool! I know this is awful, but I need to be reminded that there is a winter out there!
 
 

Posted by
Gwatlan
on 2008-03-09 08:54:35
 
Beautiful poem. But the forest will soon come back to life. The spring is coming.
 
 

Posted by
missmarie
on 2008-03-10 15:38:31
 
this is great, i think you should do one for each season, as almost suggested by Gwatlan
he he x
 
 


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