Sunday, August 19, 2007

The Winter Of My Soul Comments

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Cold morning, frozen earth
Frost lying like a blanket
The cool breeze cuts like a knife
Through the thick blanket
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Fiona Burgess
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Max Reif 19 August 2007

I find this quite lovely. Expected to find a poem about depression or lost love, and it's both intersting and beautiful to find the usual image of 'winter' turned on its head. Remind's me a bit of Shakespeare's sonnet about winter, because it really conveys the feeling of the season, in this case mainly the beauty, vividly. (ps: in one place you have an apostrophe that doesn't belong, in another you don't have one that does..1) it's 2) angels)

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