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Poetic Influences
Elements swirling in motion,
Music in splashes and streams!
Waterfall, wild rushing river,
Nature is stirring up dreams.
Fog on the shores of illusion,
Mixing with mist from the seas.
Whispering wind o’er the coastline,
Verses aloft in the breeze.
Grandeur of sunrise and sunset,
Moonbeams that light up the soul,
Echoes of rhyme in a thunder,
Nature is playing Her role.
Dewdrops demanding attention,
Flowers and foliage unfurled,
Rain dripping down in a meter,
Poetic design in our world.
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previously published by The Lyric
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Margaret Brinton has lived in San Diego’s inland valley area for over forty years where she taught and tutored. Her poems have recently been published in California Quarterly and Westward Quarterly and The Lyric with upcoming work in the greeting card industry.
From ‘Elements swirling in motion’, to ‘Poetic design in our world’, this is a beautiful, thoughtful poem, each stanza well measured, well laid out and poignant.
Lovely stuff, Margaret. Thanks for the read.
Margaret, your poem was inspired and inspiring to us! It seems you encompassed so many great images of nature that should engender poetic rhapsody. There were so many great phrases regarding nature I hesitate to pick one as my favorite.
Beautiful, Margaret! Nature is certainly full of images and all sorts of things that inspire poetry — and are themselves poetry, as you’ve expressed in your final line. I think my favorite is “Flowers and foliage unfurled”, for its lovely alliteration.
To Paul and Roy and Cynthia,
Thanks to each of you for a supportive response to my work!
In a way, this poem is an argument for Design. Interrelationships between the natural world and the human sphere are much too complicated to be written off as coincidence.
I appreciate your insight, C.B.
There is so much of Nature and Intelligent Design that a writer can tap into.
Lovely wording, Margaret, and more profound than it looks when we flow beyond the things Nature is stirring and playing. What a clever idea to point to the essence of poem though “Dewdrops demanding attention”!
Thank you, Ms. Coats.
To have words of affirmation from you means a great deal to me. Your own writing is so very powerful.
Your poem flows beautifully, musically, magically. The pronounced meter is also well-suited to the movement (swirling, rushing, mixing, etc.) of the text. Simply perfect.
The musicality, the beautiful imagery, the rush of delight – I just love this song of a poem that has me smiling in awe. Thank you, Margaret!
To Michael and Susan,
Such very kind words of approval from both of you. Many thanks!