Seasons End

Seasons End

I watch the winter fields,

thinned branches

barely shield

their blushes.

 

The sad brown earth

often looking barren

with neglect

 

until the furrows

carved by man

and picked over

by wheeling

white gulls

 

suggest

that spring

will follow

this bleak winter

 

and the sun will return

to warm our skin

as the buds appear,

 

and we know

that summer

is on its way.

 

10/01/17

Reviews

[Gee]

You paint a bleak picture John, but paint it very well. Can't wait for spring, am not one for the cold in any way, shape or form. I miss the big yellow fellow.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Gee. I so miss the sun and am NOT a winter lover.

[Lydia Shutter]

Yes, the calendar pages continue to turn and winter will turn to spring and then summer....so it shall ever be. A lovely write about the circle of life, John. I think KL is right, though....it should be suggest, not the plural. Lydi**

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Lydi. Sorry I intended altering the plural after KL's suggestion but forgot in the face of the troll!

[Valentine]

Seeing what is on here below me. I am leery of reviewing this piece. Valentine

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Below you??????

[Valentine]

You have amazing reviews on here below mine, I can't top what has all ready been wrote about this write. It was a compliment. Valentine

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Sorry and thank you Valentine; am a little paranoid since the troll returned and cloned my page and Wordman's page. If you see anything purporting to be from me which is odd or worrysome check the url. If it is not passion8 then it is not me.

[Lyn Anderson]

Very descriptive and beautiful. One minor thing -- I think suggests should be either suggest or suggesting since it describes the furrows, no?

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks 'M'. I guess it is beautiful but I await the spring with relish. Thanks for the eagle eye.

[andrew mitchell]

A lovely write depicting the english weather around a coastal village. I hear the cries of gulls clearly. This write reminded me of my visit to the channel islands and Jersey.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks Andrew. We have had a change in the behaviour of our gulls as they have migrated inland to seek food. Funnily enough they are silent. We are miles inland.