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    Language Silken     February 24, 2010    

     

    try as we may

    to name creation’s beauty

    gathering words plentiful

    adjectives sprinkled about

    splendid or simple

    consonants marching

    vowels singing

    syllables shoulder to shoulder

    accents falling where they may

    all those letters

    spelling

    perhaps

    Christmas Cactus

     

    but wait

    glancing at calendar

    I am amazed

    this is dark

    wintery February

    even Epiphany has passed

    window silently frames

    landscape barren

    whilst cold cold pane

    becomes punctuated, graced

    gently exclamation marked

    bloom flaunts skirts silken

    fuchsia tongue whispers 

    delightfully

    creation is unexpected