Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Winterscape


                       

 

The bleak and blackened

coldburned winter trees

mirror the forlorn

and forgotten heart

of mine

which is in winter, too.

The brown and brittle

frost dried branches

break

and

fall to

the hard

& frozen ground.

A touch, a smile,

a caress could—

from her—

melt the ice

and bring the spring,

but all lies frozen

and dead in

this ninth circle

of hell.

© David L. Cooper/ January 1, 2014

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