Thursday, November 25, 2010

PAD 25 - Animal

Bear in Winter

Come soul winter
I take to my cave,
pull up dark silence
to barricade entrance,
curl in the shadows,
dream my solutions.
When I emerge, new
life follows my footsteps.

3 comments:

  1. I enjoyed this movingly written poem ("live" should be "life" I believe). It would be nice to able to hibernate at will :-)
    It reminded me of scene from the Planet Earth series I recently watched where a polar bear and her newly born cubs emerge in spring from a den in the northern snows.

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  2. Thanks Jan for your warm comments, and also for catching the typo, which I'm about to change. Polar bear is one of my favorite animals.

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  3. This explains my feeling sometimes when I want to hybernate and when I do I come out refreshed. :)

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