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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

snow

snow after midnight
drifting into a dream
of empty roads

8 Comments:

Blogger T.A.T. said...

what sweet sleep,
enjoyed,

TAT

10:53 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thanks TAT.

11:38 AM  
Blogger Anonymous Poet said...

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5:31 PM  
Blogger Anonymous Poet said...

This reminds me a little bit of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" for the mood and effect, which is like that of a soft dream.

5:42 PM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thanks for your comment, anon. Even though I wasn't thinking of the Frost poem as I wrote, I've lived with that poem for years, and I don't doubt that it had something to do with this one.

7:46 PM  
Blogger EATING POETRY said...

that's the exact feeling snow captures... that emptiness... yet not frightening at all because of it's dreamlike quality.

3:15 PM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thanks, ep, for your thoughtful and sensitive comment.

8:28 PM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thanks, Denis. You know, it wasn't until I looked at what I'd written that I noticed the ambiguity you mention.

7:22 AM  

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