Celebration

take away Brrrrrrritain

Brilliant this day a young virtuoso of a day -
Morning shadow -

cut by sharpest scissors -
every prodigy of green -
whether its ferns or lichens or needles -
or impatient points of buds on spindly bushes -
greener than ever before -

And the way the conifers -
hold new cones to the light for the blessing -
a festive night and sing

the oceanic chant the wind -
transcribes for them -
A day that shines in the cold -
like a first prize brass band swinging along the street -
of a coal dusty village wholly at odds -
with the claims of reasonable gloom - 


Denise Levertov

Reviews

[Summer D.]

Returning reviews and knocking on old doors.
I believe you were the very first person to ever review anything I wrote.

It's a beautiful poem. Descriptive. A beautiful take on celebration.
I adored the phrasing.

If I could rate I would give it *100*

YT,

Summer