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Date Posted: 14:49:34 03/09/03 Sun
Author: Raphaela
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Subject: Re: Ice on a Mountain
In reply to: Gray Squirrel 's message, "Ice on a Mountain" on 01:49:54 03/09/03 Sun

An intriguing poem - seems to speak of a love lost

'No footprints show,
No coming and going,
No checker-board cloth
Laid over the grass
In the sun.'

or maybe I am reading too much into it but there seems to me to be an angry, almost bitter tone?

Good endline to keep the reader thinking ;)

Raphaela

>Ice on a Mountain
>
>Love's wicker basket
>With it's picnic poured out
>In the snow,
>The red wine bottle broken.
>
>No footprints show,
>No coming and going,
>No checker-board cloth
>Laid over the grass
>In the sun.
>
>One and one,
>Beginning.
>Undone.
>
>Love's waiting whispers
>To love's scattered frost,
>Love's silk moon
>Nowhere watching.
>
>Love catching,
>Love caught...
>Love not.
>
>Love's tag!
>Or love's song;
>Reduced to a wrong
>Tongue wagging,
>To a magic
>Forgetting.
>
>Under fragments of glass,
>Love's undrunken greedy
>Bloodletting.
>
>Love's starved mountain wedding.
>
>-Gray Squirrel

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