Winter Comments

I like poems that express the seasons. There is something effortless symbolic about the seasons. As in your WINTER: you present a variety of images of winter cold and discomfort, but also include the personification especially evocative in the last two lines with the Forest acting just like a woman! In the middle of the poem you dramatize the survival theme as hunger stalks the landscape. I've seen emaciated deer during some severe winters, it's a sad sight. I'm something of a seasonal poet; autumn in particular inspires my poems, but after reading your take on winter I'm encouraged to add my one winter poem to my sight! I also just read your poem about a #2 pencil: both clever and poignant - you wrote a homage for all the stories that don't get written because no writer is present or no incentive is pushing the writer.