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I’m a pencil cropwriting love notes on the ground– erasing the sky –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved ?
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“Erasing the sky” – they will be doing that shortly, when spring comes around! Loved the actual images and the imagary in your poem.
Donna Smith
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Thanks, Donna. Birch forests, in particular, are one of my favorite sights when we go to northern Minnesota. :>)
“Erasing the sky” – they will be doing that shortly, when spring comes around! Loved the actual images and the imagary in your poem.
Donna Smith
The A-to-Z Challenge
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Thanks, Donna. Birch forests, in particular, are one of my favorite sights when we go to northern Minnesota. :>)
Love this! Thanks, Laura.
Love this! Thanks, Laura.
What a creative image. I don’t think I would have ever come up with that, but after reading/seeing the pic, wow! The winds we had last week were definitely erasing the sky, hopefully making a clean slate for a spring version. The fallen trees were writing notes but I can’t say they would have been love notes. I like your interpretation better.
Hehe–yeah, sometimes trees write furiousletters, too! Thanks, Martha!
What a creative image. I don’t think I would have ever come up with that, but after reading/seeing the pic, wow! The winds we had last week were definitely erasing the sky, hopefully making a clean slate for a spring version. The fallen trees were writing notes but I can’t say they would have been love notes. I like your interpretation better.
Hehe–yeah, sometimes trees write furiousletters, too! Thanks, Martha!
We have the aspen here, kin to birches, & we always think these trees look as if they have hidden messages in their bark, too, Laura. I too love that ‘erasing the sky’, keeping the metaphor.
Thanks, Linda–yes, I love aspen! Oooh, the sound they make in a breeze is magical.
We have the aspen here, kin to birches, & we always think these trees look as if they have hidden messages in their bark, too, Laura. I too love that ‘erasing the sky’, keeping the metaphor.
Thanks, Linda–yes, I love aspen! Oooh, the sound they make in a breeze is magical.
I rely like all the images it seams like a much longer poem it says a lot in few words
I rely like all the images it seams like a much longer poem it says a lot in few words
The shadow of trees on the snowy ground do write secret massages across the ground when i was younger i all ways wonted to make a move of shadows
On the ground with musice and poems that would go with them I have done that yet
The shadow of trees on the snowy ground do write secret massages across the ground when i was younger i all ways wonted to make a move of shadows
On the ground with musice and poems that would go with them I have done that yet
Beautiful poem and beautiful photos. Thanks.
Beautiful poem and beautiful photos. Thanks.
Oh very clever, Laura! I hope you are going to make a book out of these.
Oh very clever, Laura! I hope you are going to make a book out of these.
Changing blush, peeling
Skin, I?m like a snake except
My poison?s Ivy.
(c) Charles Waters 2014 all rights reserved.
Oooh–love that last line!
Changing blush, peeling
Skin, I?m like a snake except
My poison?s Ivy.
(c) Charles Waters 2014 all rights reserved.
Oooh–love that last line!