Solstice Shakedown
The light trickles back
through the skinny-waisted squeeze
of winter’s hourglass grip
________Colleen Redman____dVerse Poets Pub / Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads
The light trickles back
through the skinny-waisted squeeze
of winter’s hourglass grip
________Colleen Redman____dVerse Poets Pub / Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads
December 21st, 2014 colleen Posted in Poetics
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December 21st, 2014 1:01 pm
oh that is an excellent image… i’m glad the days are getting longer again…
December 21st, 2014 2:35 pm
I agree, excellent!
December 21st, 2014 3:01 pm
Yes.. not it’s time to slowly recover.. slowly… just through that squeeze
December 21st, 2014 3:17 pm
What a brilliant conceit you’ve built here, Colleen! The Solstice standing as the flip of the annual hourglass to days of greater daylight. Just marvelous!! So glad I stopped by! Best wishes for the holidays!
December 21st, 2014 4:13 pm
As always, succinct. Beautiful. Thank you.
December 21st, 2014 4:17 pm
Thanks, all! Joe, I was only familiar with the most common meaning of the word conceit, so had to look it up: In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem.
December 21st, 2014 5:29 pm
Beautiful Colleen!
December 21st, 2014 7:44 pm
I love that – light trickling back ~ Can’t wait for longer days ~
Happy Holidays Colleen ~
December 21st, 2014 10:22 pm
Your poem really has wonderful imagery, Colleen!
December 21st, 2014 10:30 pm
I am so glad the light is trickling back. Great image, Colleen!
December 21st, 2014 10:49 pm
What perfect image and metaphor! I so look forward to the days growing longer again!!
December 22nd, 2014 3:53 pm
Excellent image!
December 22nd, 2014 5:50 pm
Love the idea of the Solstice as the waist of the hour glass. Brilliant.
December 23rd, 2014 12:05 am
Gorgeous!
December 23rd, 2014 7:41 pm
Yes, bring back the brighter days!
I like how much this poem says with so few words. I’m a big fan of short poems and I think this a great one.
December 24th, 2014 12:26 am
The grip of gravity is a gorgeous force of holding life in hand and hand of togetherness Love..
And as the Sun moves around the Black Hole Center
of its gravity and we move around the Sun on Earth home of Gaia..
A gay time will continue to be force for all!
December 24th, 2014 11:34 am
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