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poetry: snow cave

in Winter
in all Winters
it lays dormant inside 
domed darkness

you walk past it looking nowhere
anywhere, but not there
  never there

yet it goes still
growing bedrock feral
mushroom bellied
lichen ferocious
trapping pain web-like
crackling like ice
smelling like bruised desperation
like untouched skin
like hot ash scattered by eroded winds 

you don’t need to see
to feel

you walk faster looking nowhere
anywhere, but not there
  never there 

yet it goes still
like tides
like movement 
Spring saplings tap-dancing
on rooted tiptoes
daffodils issuing battle cries
thrusting spears upward
dandelion puffs cooing
dreaming light again
there’s a light somewhere
he says

your nested winds sigh
your meadow grasses rustle
your waters ripple gently

just a bit longer
you tell your forest
  hold tight 

31 thoughts on “poetry: snow cave”

  2. Bridgette, A little bit darker this poem, the opening in to the void conjures up alsorts of fears, but outside it’s murky grasp nature endures busting into life, you are telling your forest to hold tight as spring is about to show in all it’s glory🙏😁❤️

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  7. Chilling photograph. I’d as soon ignore that as walk past a cemetery at night without whistling. Those first two stanzas brief as they are mate perfectly with the dark shell inside the snowed over lair.

    Yes, this poem is all feeling, and that is what we read, what we receive.

    Then you plead with your forest, and we feel that too. The feelings we can understand without even the words.

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    • I appreciate you understanding the feelings behind this poem—that feeling of not wanting to look at the darkness. I hope the poem left you feeling hope though, because Spring is coming. It’s what I hold on to.

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      • Being ‘real’ makes it even better…don’t ever apologize for where you are…you never know who you may help with the place you are in 💞💞💞

        That being said, I hope you shake the funk quickly….it’s not a fun place to be stuck in 💞

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