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Spring

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Unknowingly you woke up this morning to 

the instant in which spring conquered the darkness
 
that accompanied you every morning out
of bed. The abstracting silence of the night
 
replaced by the symphonic call of the  first migrating geese:
passengers  of the unpredictable railway of the seasons.
 
In their shed white feathers you read about their 
tired flight, and in the way they stuck together, as the 
 
wind gently swept them into the ancient willow, you smelled the 
perspiring fusion of devoted and monogamous love. 
 
In their broken symmetry you tasted  the precipitated escapade 
from the furious predator of isolation. And in their silent
 
repose on the cold waters of the river you admired  a wise
sense of accomplishment after a winter of victories and 
 
defeats. The sun now embraced their tired flight as you 
were caught prisoner of the crisp realization that 
 
all your life had been a preparation for the next step you 
were about to take into the confines of a spring of awareness

 

◄ In Este

we run ►

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<Deleted User> (10123)

Wed 7th Mar 2012 11:44

I don't often take to 'prosetry'. Bill the Bard (william Shake-a-spear)was pretty good at it. Juxtaposition of phrasing comes to mind (lines 3 - 4: 'that accompanied you out of bed every morning' may seem a wee bit twee but resloves any slight stumble the reader may encounter. Does the revision carry that metrical, rhymical flow that is so important for this style? Hope I'm not too hard. Ta much.

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