carefully everywhere descending (apologies to ee)

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Perhaps somewhere snow
arranges itself carefully
and everywhere descending,
but here it is less pointillist
and more whitewashing
with a wide brush,
painting over everything
an annihilating sameness.

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About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?
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46 Responses to carefully everywhere descending (apologies to ee)

  1. Polly's avatar Polly Robinson says:
    February 9, 2013 at 2:15 am

    Wow, that final line’s a killer, Susan 🙂

  2. claudia's avatar claudia says:
    February 9, 2013 at 6:43 am

    painting over everything
    an annihilating sameness…. ha…i like that…still..it carves out the contours of things as well.. i find snow highly fascinating…was snowing last night over here..

  3. Noel Ihebuzor's avatar Noel Ihebuzor says:
    February 9, 2013 at 7:55 am

    beautiful….I see white! I imagine that

    the same blanketing to fine sameness,
    a fine ridged and ribbed cover of sameness
    creating a dazzling but confusing sameness
    could be said of the “cumming” of brown
    soft sand sprinkled by sandy lover
    over the warm body of the willing
    but widening Sahara on its march
    to see the sea

  4. Dana's avatar Dana says:
    February 9, 2013 at 9:12 am

    If we had gotten significant snow this year, it would look just as you described here. 🙂

  5. Alice Keys's avatar Alice Keys says:
    February 9, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    It sounds to me like you’ve had enough of the white stuff for sure.

  6. brian miller's avatar brian miller says:
    February 9, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    painting everything in annihilating sameness….dang what a line that…i rather like the white stuff, but then again there is a line when it becomes too much…smiles…stay warm…

  7. unfetteredbs's avatar unfetteredbs says:
    February 9, 2013 at 3:47 pm

    I look outside and I see your words Susan. Wonderfully done(on all levels)

  8. nelle's avatar nelle says:
    February 9, 2013 at 6:58 pm

    I’m snowed out… but the drifts were cool.

  9. deanabo's avatar deanabo says:
    February 9, 2013 at 7:59 pm

    I like the way the snow paints..

  10. David J. Bauman's avatar David J. Bauman says:
    February 9, 2013 at 11:41 pm

    Nothing carefully about that, eh? By the way, in my reader I saw a poetry cloud around here somewhere, but it seems to have lifted. 😉 Is that were the blizzard came from? 🙂

    • Susan L Daniels's avatar Susan L Daniels says:
      February 10, 2013 at 10:16 am

      David, I did a poetry cloud, but could not make it big enough to share. I am graphically-challenged 😉

      • David J. Bauman's avatar David J. Bauman says:
        February 10, 2013 at 11:02 am

        Aw, no worries. You can use the embedding code if you like, but you’re right, it does make it small. But when people click on it the larger version shows up. The other possibility is to bring it up on your screen and use the print screen button, then paste it into something like Paint, Photo Filter or Paint Shop, save it as a jpeg and then upload it. I know, it’s always frustrating to me to play with that stuff when I don’t know my way around.

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