View From My Window
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(01-22-2022, 09:59 PM)Mark A Becker Wrote:  View From My Window

As white disguises greenery
with frozenness, below,
a silent change of scenery
blows in with the snow.
This is delightful - puts me in mind of a recent quote from a poet (which I have not been able to re-find) to the effect that people desperately want rhymes but we refuse them.

"[B]elow" is just a bit forced and jarring - to what does it refer?  And though I can't think of a good construction that would preserve the metric scheme in the last line, it might be out there - "infiltrates," for example, in place of "blows in," would fit but is obviously inferior.  As is, the missing first beat works well enough - a caught breath for the wind, as it were.

Quite nice.
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View From My Window - by Mark A Becker - 01-22-2022, 09:59 PM
RE: View From My Window - by Tiger the Lion - 01-22-2022, 10:37 PM
RE: View From My Window - by Mark A Becker - 01-22-2022, 11:14 PM
RE: View From My Window - by dukealien - 01-22-2022, 11:25 PM
RE: View From My Window - by Mark A Becker - 01-22-2022, 11:41 PM
RE: View From My Window - by Tiger the Lion - 01-23-2022, 11:13 PM
RE: View From My Window - by dukealien - 01-24-2022, 11:15 PM



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