All Winter Long the Willows Wait

December 2, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme, as the days grow shorter and colder, is the approach of winter.

Today’s poem is about willow trees sleeping through the winter.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

All winter long the willows wait,

Nor more nor less than willing,

Glad to be, but just a bit

Entropic in their chilling.

Life longs ever for rebirth,

Awake to its long sleep,

As willows need their leaves for breath,

Numb until they weep.

Do, then, winter well beneath

More blankets than you know,

Immense as any mustard seed,

Content to dream for now,

Holding in your arms a light

As Earth slides through its bitter night,

Ever doomed to bliss and blight

Lest things too easy go.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/allwin.html. For more poems about months or seasons, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/calendarpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Winter.

November 28: And Now, with the Pensive Coming of the Winter

November 29: January

November 30: The Wind Brings Down Its Icy Load

December 1: Take from Winter Just a Bit of Hope

December 2: All Winter Long the Willows Wait