Monochromatrick

sonnet in tetrameter

 

Monochromatrick

 

When winter comes the forest trees

 all do a colourful striptease

Discarding their leaves one by one

until the very last is gone

but even so they’re beautiful

 although not so colourful.

A tracery of black on white

silhouettes against the light

grey white of the wintery sky

But pleasing to an artists eye

I like the sheer simplicity

I can attempt successfully

to paint though I’m an amateur.

In monochrome as I prefer

.

19/10/2009

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Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

i NEVER GAVE MUCH THOUGHT TO THE LACK OF COLOR IN THE WINTER YET ON REFLECTION PERHAPS THAT IS THE PART I HATE MOST THE COLD BLEAK BARREN DARKNESS ?bY THE WAY GO TO YOUTUBE AND LOOK UP PAPER MOON THE MOVIE STARRING TATUM AND RYAN ONEIL YOU CAN WATCH IOT ALL ON THE YOU TUBE AND IT IS GREAT I FORGOT HOW MUCH I ADMIRED THAT OLD FILM
tATE