Bright Winter
Scattered dark bright branching sticks etched spreading into sky;
sun, burnished silver disk, a frozen lifeless eye.
Space, light, air bring soft cold kiss of knife cut winter's way;
Blade-white ices freeze skin deep and deeper yet in light of day.
Desiccating crackle sharpest crystal sparkle edge
and glitter every limb and leaf and lacework locking hedge.
Season's depth and death pass cycle in through in
Bringing winter's spring to summer's fall and winter round again.
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Submitted on February 13, 2016
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 76 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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