Wolves, blizzard
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By onemorething
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An attempt at an imagistic poem (part ekphrastic, based on painting) for Top Tweet Tuesday on Twitter.
Watch, where hare skin and bone cast
of the evernight of slick ice,
earth greased where they roam
the dark wide and blood thin,
a yearning of notes flung
to the sky gods that sail
upon the high wind,
the moonquiet, moon
with its empty grin, watch,
how though snowblind and lost,
the stars scatter at their call --
together, there is a way
through the forest.
Painting is from here: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Wierusz-Kowalski_-_Wilki_podczas_zamieci.jpg
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"...! sky gods that sail."
"...sky gods that sail." Very beautiful and imagist :)
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Beautiful - and very chilly,
Beautiful - and very chilly, both painting and poem! Did you ever read The Wolves of Willoughby Chase as a child?
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You absolutely must read it
You absolutely must read it if you haven't!
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I love "a yearning of notes
I love "a yearning of notes flung/to the sky" and "stars scatter with their call" shivery exciting :0)
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Beautiful language. I too was
Beautiful language. I too was particularly struck by the image of the stars scattering, so it's interesting what you say about wolves eating the stars. Also the last two lines, 'together there is a way through the forest' really evoked that image of the pack moving together. I'm fascinated by wolves, I'll watch anything on TV if it's got wolves moving in a pack!
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This is our Poem of the Week
This is our Poem of the Week - Congratulations!
It's also our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Please share/retweet if you enjoy it as much as I did
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It's stunning. What a
It's stunning. What a quietness to it. Words that stop you in your tracks. You've suggested the movement of the wolves with the pace. I like the slight repetition and the making of compound words.
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Vivid
in the subtle shapes and images that weave and lope through the poem... a fine resolution; together we can make it through ...
Enjoyed
Lena x
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