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AVOCET The Weekly
Issue No. 15 | March 27 - 2013
“Nature, the manifestation of divinity.” - Joseph Campbell
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“A Peaceful Night”
Night falls once again like a blanket on the world coming and leaving Dylan A. Guida [email protected]
Dylan is a student at Freedom Middle School. His teacher is Tracy Deitz. If you would like to tell Dylan how much you like his poem, e-mail me at [email protected] and I will forward it to him. Let’s support our young poets!
“The soul needs more space than the body.” - Axel Munthe
Late Winter Walk
She and the terrier slip in the road, barred from sidewalk and grass
by a late heavy snow.
Today are, here and there, mounds of snow, where yesterday
they saw green shoots, and more snow pushed to the side of a street no truck bothers to salt.
Because it is, after all, March
the robin on a snow bank agrees with their outrage, cocking his head
as he lures the woman and dog with insouciance and flair
away from a nest he and his mate have not built yet.
Karen Middleton
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they
move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls. - Mother Teresa
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The Cabin in Winter
The voices of summer are silent No laughter from the meadow, no hummingbirds buzzing the deck,no children riding bicycles. Birches cast lean shadows. Snowpacked into the angle of the roof,bird feeder a hump of white. Windows black and still. A looping line of ants, motionless as a frozen rosary, leads to a lollipop abandonedunder the couch. On the table beside the immaculately made bed,a forgotten watch will observethe hours until summer. Piles of dirty snow on the road to the fire station. Willows sag over the ditch. Cloudscrowd the pine tops. Cattails bend at the edge of the pond.In the center, ice thins to a glaze.Across the valley, winter’s slant of lightcatches the trees on the far slope, each one touched by grace.
Ruth [email protected]
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo
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Snow Effect
A wolf ’s howl echoes solemnlyominous message lost to deep caverns.Snowflakes collapse into valleys,light gently on eyelashes.Each melting flake a teardrop,her oval cheek freezes. Winter’s frigidity cannot dominate woman cloaked in fur, a vulnerabletenderness swept by each snowflake›ssparkle in the twilight. Coldness painsher supple skin, so elegantly framed in mink. Moon rising , another wolf howls. Woman’s pale lips part, her howl pierces the frozen night. Gone!Remnant canine prints short-liveddrifts decimate their snow effect.
Linda Bratcher [email protected]
“I would feel dead if I didn’t have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.” - Richard Wilbur
Bliss
Kisses lit by lunar lightrefracted and reflected
off and throughthe falling flakes
of snow
paul bach jr [email protected]
“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks, ‘Go.’” - Christopher Morley
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Here are three poets who took the Quotes Challenge posted in last week’s Weekly Avocet.
Think about taking the challenge yourself! Submit your poem to [email protected] and see yourself in print.
Possibility
“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.” - Standing Bear
I stand at the intersection of three dimensions.
Pink sunrise flares between cypress fingers, becomes a new day. Beneath my shoes, the bluff runs in two directions, offers possibilities.To the north, a pristine spill of polished sand reveals dazzling beach. Breakers roll ashore, drag torn kelp ribbons within the rhythmic pulse of spindrift-stripped purple wrinkles. Lithe dolphins leap and dive as an egret forages snails. At the mouth of the southern lagoon, two happy dogs play. Yellow oxalis marks my desired path.Pale fog, receding moon, tardy stars fade.
Jennifer Lagier [email protected]
“No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.” – Proverb
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Essence of Spring
In front of my computer,
I am insulated
from the cold of a spring morning.
I don’t feel the crispness of artic air,
or hear the calls of doves and sparrows
waiting for food.
Furnaced warmth surrounds
me and I am
held prisoner to it.
Reluctantly, I rise and open
the door to
gather seed for the birds.
My heart becomes tender
open to the world of birds and buds.
I breathe in the essence of spring in the desert.
Maralee [email protected]
“April is a promise that May is bound to keep.” - Hal Borland
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Carpe Diem
Yawning, stretching out my arms,allowing for a deep breath,I wake with a start to face
the dawning of this new day,today, this glorious morning.
Got to make this day, everydayamount to something, take nothing
for granted, got to get up early,get out for some fresh air,
clear away all those cobwebs.
I witness a daisy forcingits way up through a crack
in the sidewalk, I smileseeing this soft, yellow-petaled
flower seek out the sun.
Sitting atop a golden boulder,I see the trees, the birds,
the few clouds striated acrossthe alluring, azure blue sky,I feel them for the first time.
Basking in the brilliant sun,listening to the “aum” of the
universe humming on the breezethat dances through the trees,
their leaves shimmering.
I hear God speak to me,I tune in for the first time,sitting among the beauty
that he has graced me withto enjoy, to free me from stress.
I thought the big “C” had gottenthe best of me, but I learned
last night that I’ve been givena reprieve to learn how to behappy to have another day.
Charles [email protected]
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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” - Anne Bradstreet
Next Wednesday, we start with our Spring-themed poems. Let’s welcome in Spring!
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