“The Thaw”….poetry for d’versepoets.

Watercolor, Early Spring, Jane Kohut-Bartels, 2011

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This is a ‘too-early’ poem of farewell….Farewell to Winter, a welcome to Spring.  But it will happen…just not now.

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Spring comes drumming through

Breaking  ice in the creek

Destroying a beaver dam

And with the unexpected noise-

The un-damming of my heart

A softening of my bones

A juiciness of loins

A waving of budding branches

In a new born wind-

Encircling tender arms-

A phantom will o’ wisp lover.

 

Spring comes drumming through,

Cracking open where winter nailed me shut.

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Fallen leaves crackle.

Sparrows add the treble notes.

Season’s musical.

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Jane Kohut-Bartels

Copyrighted, 2016

 

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