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Wintertide Metaphor

( after Louise Glück )
  
How was I to know          
dormancy could craft          
the art of contentment;          
         
that breaking beyond winter          
  to spring’s hustling charms          
would teach me of solitude⁠—          
  instill a crisp propensity          
  for suppression again        
         
Spring is cursory⁠—          
  a budding headdress only          
⁠for those that cannot observe          
  beyond outward beauty;          
who swallow, eventually        
summer’s flippancy;        
         
but, Earth is eternally employed⁠—        
a mother whose cord cannot be severed;          
  suckles you deeper within layers          
  of crusted shale to root forever;          
         
obscured bones of treasure⁠—        
  dust and ash reflecting yourself;        
the prodigal child          
  having survived the world        
  returning home after all          
~
Author's Note
For the Classic Corner Louise Gluck tribute competition: https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/11190/

Inspired by Snowdrops: https://hellopoetry.com/poem/20568/snowdrops/
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