December 15, 2021

Parting Gift




 

 

Musing…

“The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.”   

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Charise’s Turn:

It’s been a good year for poetry publication, one to celebrate. It’s been a hard year as well; but rather than put an emphasis on this, I’m choosing to celebrate my muse. She has a way of landing wherever, and however, I am. 

 

 

Here is a poem gift to close our 2021 blog (with a photo by Annie Spratt):

 

 






 

 

 

 

December

  

 

Less 

and less

delicious warmth

 

as winter unwraps 

its grey forlorn.

 

Also

––O also, 

sotto voce––

 

a silver gleam adorns 

the boughs bereft

 

to say, like a dare, adore me.

 


~ Charise M. Hoge



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