Walk in December
Walk in December
This is jewel-tree corner,
where I held your hand
and the streetlights
looked on, and I wanted
to keep the moment
beyond what seemed possible,
permissible, keep
the pressure of your fingers
against mine, and the ice
clinging to bare branches,
sparkling like pink
Depression glass.
Angel Photo by L.L. Barkat.
This poem is offered for One Shot Wednesday.
Labels: 12 Days of Christmas poetry
posted by L.L. Barkat at 8:00 AM
25 Comments:
This is so beautiful. I love visiting here -- you make my heart go all soft and guishy! :)
well done. :)
Romantical and lyrical.
You could do a hot dance on ice.
Don't we all have moments we wish we could hold on to like this. I had one just yesterday...
Your words bring the scene alive...
Beautiful...
I love those trees and the way they sing with the light.
I can't decide which I am more taken with - the picture or the poem. They are both simply lovely.
i can picture it...
i like your words.
Pink depression glass is the best part. iSee it.
Short, almost-sublime, effective, work. I wish more poets were this brief and this exemplary.
i agree with ml.
lovely gushy
pink sparkles
there are certain moments you want to hold onto...and you have done that well with your words...
I like the abrupt ending, it frames the moment, seperates it from what came before and after, and emphasizes its importance. Beautiful imagery as well, especially the last line about Depression glass--made in hard times, yet of great beauty.
Romantic memory-longing; an efficient capture of a moment in time. Funny how a place, a touch, can set us back through time and space...
Beauteous-- deceptively simple-- wanting to hold on to ice and all that burns...did you see Tony Single's poem? Thanks for stopping by--xxxxj
expressive photo, and narrated well by its verse
There's a lot captured in that moment. Nice One Shot, LL!
Set the season between the initial image ... jewel-tree corner followed with streetlights aglow and ending with the soft pink glow sparkling clean depression glass. Beautiful.
Raw,love the imagery here..soothing!
so beautiful..:)
Set the emotion, the touch, between the Christmas-color images. Tight, sweet, cuddly!
Wow. The feeling of wanting to hold onto love through depression. Powerful, heartbreaking, and beautiful. cheers
Awwwww.
Oh... beautiful, and the end is so full--pink depression glass--so much allusion there, but so grounded in the tangible, too. I love it.
So beautiful.
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