Such a vivid wondrous depiction - if this poem is autobiographical, hugs. Sending healing light - Jenine Bsharah Baines

Outside, it’s spring, but I feel trapped
 in an endless winter with barren trees
 turned skeletal,
 with joy and a sense of the sacred
 dormant, buried under layers of ice.
 
 Even simple pleasures
 are drained to a dull gray:
 the slant of my wife’s beret,
 the swirl of …
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Such a vivid wondrous depiction - if this poem is autobiographical, hugs. Sending healing light
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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