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Friday, February 25, 2011

Searching Memory for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry promptYou can make up your own personal holiday or celebrate an actual event that is meaningful for you.





hyacinth 
the flavor of spring
snow covered
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
    A spaced out doodle on Bamboo Fun
while I try to remember what spring rites might look like.
Ten degrees and more snow today.
My memory gets thinner and colder and maybe even older.
 
♥     ♥     ♥

17 comments:

flaubert said...

Susan, I can feel your desire for
warmer weather in this. I haven't
been around snow for quite a few years. Nicely said.

Pamela

vivinfrance said...

I feel sympathy for you in your cold surroundings. Here our Spring has made tentative inroads into bloom: primroses on the banks, daffodil buds about to burst, fat leaf buds on the hawthorn.
I don't know where you are, but be sure, it WILL come.

Anonymous said...

Saw some forsythia blooming the other day. Somehow they surprise me every year, like fireworks that you can't stop yourself from gasping over.

Christy Woolum said...

I love your last line... I am feeling the same way up north a bit more. Beautiful illustration.

Erin Davis said...

I'm sitting here in Spokane nodding my head and relating to every beautiful word you've written here.

Julie Jordan Scott said...

It is even chilly in Bakersfield today. Enjoyed the simplicity and the longing in your words.

My Holiday poem.

Anonymous said...

Fabulous job conveying the atmospherics of the season....brr...had to scrape the frost off my computer screen...good job!!! Vb

Anonymous said...

I love the sense of anticipation that this shows. It is magical when the crocus and hyacinth begin to defy snow.

Uma said...

Susan, a beautiful haiku of longing. Love your paintings.

Tammie Lee said...

lovely poem
spring will come... it always does, we had the same weather.

Anonymous said...

Just right!

Madeleine Begun Kane said...

I can definitely relate. :)
Mad Kane

Cathy said...

Know that feeling after a winter of too much snow!

www.thequietone.net

Deb said...

Ah, the green scented times will come.

Anonymous said...

yes, you have found a piece of spring here. keep digging -- i can't take any more winter!!!

Laurie Kolp said...

I do love hyacinth! Hang in there... spring is near!

Elaine said...

Spring...grass peeping out from under the snow...it's coming!