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County Senior Scribes...
March
Moon,
Slothful Winter
By Beverly
Hughes
March 17, 2012
This has
been a strange winter. Senior Scribes poet Bev Hughes offers her take
on the
March moon of winters past and the unusually mild winter of 2012. Bev’s
articles appear in County News Online and the Early Bird Newspaper.
Senior
Scribes is a group of adults with a common purpose... we love to write.
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members are always welcome. Drop a line to CNO if you’d like more
information. March Moon
By Beverly Hughes
Crystal ball hung from deep spaces
Washing out all lesser faces
Icy circle cut with die
Out of velvet, cloth of night
Lordly ruler of my dreams
Passing unimpressed, it seems
Bleaching ragged gauzy edge
Windswept clouds disperse afraid
Say goodbye to evening fellows.
Go down Moon. Put on your yellows.
Comely creamy, black is gone
Purple robe with pearl on
He dips, he drops, he slides on through
Lemon now in royal blue
Tree tips reach and break his fall
Tangling trunks he’s butter ball
Hurry, Orb. Morning stirs.
Pour through power lines unhurt
Squeeze between the buildings there
Russet wrestles with your hair
Day white comes like a mouse
There sits a blood orange on that house
He’s bowing low to us, the few
Who watch the night, he flares au dieux.
~Beverly Hughes, March 9, 2012
Slothful Winter 2012
By Beverly Hughes
too many jacket days
mittens once a week
umbrellas, puddles
60 degrees
a cold snap of 20
but only overnight
school’s delayed for icy roads
by 5 we fly a kite
keep out your favorite autumn clothes,
a couple springtime shirts
snowsuits fall into disuse
winter only flirts
grass bright green
crocus shoots
are popping up again
and yet they say this week we’ll see
snowfall in inches, 10?
all those homey projects
I longed to be snowed in
instead I’m sweeping sticks and leaves
it’s winter, might have been
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