No Color But Snow

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

No Color But Snow

The dark is just lifting as I back out
the sky an impossible blue
the tree tops ahead are tipped in pink
the hills to my right turn gold.
to the south, clouds tilting at the east;
to what seems north, clouds full of light
bright with morning,
colors no one has seen til this moment,
the day opens up like a lid revealing
I think the April show is over but ahead
the hills are wrapped in clouds
with no color but snow.
In the parking lot, my last swig of coffee
while the red fills my closed eyes.
2 April 2013

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End of April Fool’s Day

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

We’re all a little foolish come April, right? Yes. Caulfield told Frazz this poem and put it all in perspective again. Poem by Robert Frost:

Forgive, O Lord

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April 1 Commute

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

Where the landscape meets the sky
and the hills meet the highway,
the trees stand in a row
crazing against the gray clouds.
In their naked April stance,
a dance that will be leafier in June
when they’ll lift their broad green fans
to shield, most discretely,
the fields which stand behind them.
In passing the blackness blurs
with twig-level crispness glimpsed.
Where those who laid this road said –
these trees can stay, those will go –
and cut down the many to leave the few,
those guard the path now taken
and mark the seasons as they come.

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spam fodder

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

Others may use spam comments as titles in their blog or for other nefarious purposes but when I see stuff that looks like this:

Continue to maintain up the extremely superior operate. I just extra up your RSS feed to my MSN News Reader. Seeking forward to reading extra from you later on!

I just want to use it for the words. I’m getting (very strange!) very little spam right now otherwise I might go for the found poetry approach and just black out the words that are not needed. (Look here for a really hardcore project that is going on right now!)

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Happy NaPoWriMo!

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

Wordxword 30/30 poetry issued their first prompt yesterday for today and it was “From start to finish. Worked it into a sonnet for poetry month eve but hey, it’s got five syllables so…

The way of winding
the path we all take each day
From start to finish

all life – commitment
we all travel the same road
from start to finish.

where shall we go, then?
each day is a new commute
from start to finish.

—- and just to start the sonnets off for the month, from late last night:

The first of April, a month of travels
a month full of poems, from start to finish,
the daily stacks up, the month unravels,
the pages and words shall not diminish.
To speak of the small things, to sing for you,
to show you the things that fill everyday.
The highway and trees and clouds in the blue
the breezes that make April’s flowers sway.
Where will we go then? Where haven’t we been?
Just to see each day with eyes new and clear
so to see each day what has been most seen
we will look and write what we find most dear.
Fear in the starting but joy to come home
the road ahead paved with thirty new poems.

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