Winter Trees

16 Jul

Elmira Oktayevna Elvazova

 

We sit on the porch

our faces lit by the white trees

 

Not so long ago the light,

like a fisherman,

casting black shadows into the cold

 

The day spent watching the snow

making something of itself

 

It goes on making

 

We make angels in the snow,

like an excuse not to go into church

 

We don’t pray under a closed sky

And we play

 

Like this all day until the day is spent

until the porch is lit by the white trees

 

In the winter I want to say- I’m snowing

can I be the storm that keeps us inside?

 

I want to keep you from going

as my life’s work

 

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2 Responses to “Winter Trees”

  1. poetryandmusings July 16, 2012 at 11:58 am #

    Lovely!! thanks for sharing…happy writing!!

  2. slpmartin July 16, 2012 at 1:35 pm #

    Quite a beautiful verse.

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