At dVerse Sanaa is hosting Prosery with an invitation to write a piece of prose (144 words) including a line from ‘A Daughter Of Eve’ by Christina Rossetti. The line is – “Talk what you please of future spring and sun warm’d sweet tomorrow.”
dVerse Poets – Prosery – When it comes to Christina Georgina Rossetti
“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” Elizabeth Bowen
Until Then
Talk what you please of future spring and sun warm’d sweet tomorrow, but today my mood is mellowed by autumn dews, russet leaves and memories falling into me again. A season of funereal beauty, so easy on my eyes, yet unsettled in my heart. Many leaves now carpet the earth, old and turned often with little to add, save that they hint at something more to come which temporarily coddles me. I just can’t see that far ahead, and in some ways I don’t want to, no one season is experienced like its previous appearance, it can be anticipated but never presumed, longed for but never known until it chooses. Until then I must winter well, reflect and refresh. Spring will come in good time but for now I sit closely with greying skies and misty dawns that challenge my complacency again.
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Wonderful description…and a new look at this time of the year from someone in the other hemisphere…
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Thanks Ain, i feel autumn and winter about sum up the world at present, and I live in a safe place, goodness knows how the rest of you are coping up there.
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Haha, for you that wouldn’t be much of a challenge!
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Well, I must own that Ana, I have spent years doing it, so yes, though I can be stubborn 🙂
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No, no, I meant there isn’t much of it left to challenge!
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O, now I get it, I’m real quick 🙂
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And I express myself with clarity, so we’re a match! 😆👌
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We need each other 🙂
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That’s the first true thing we’ve managed to say here! 🙏👍😆👌🌹
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😉
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I’mm so sorry for this confusion 🙏🌹
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🙂
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I love the phrase “memories falling into me again”. It is so very evocative.
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Thank you so much Anne-Marie 🙂
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Beautiful image. Beautiful reflective words. I am most smitten with these:
” no one season is experienced like its previous appearance, it can be anticipated but never presumed, longed for but never known until it chooses.”
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I’m thrilled that those words had that affect, thank you so much Lillian.
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I hope that you may live through the seasons well… spring is coming here so I sympathize with you.
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Yes indeed, though I do like autumn, I think the global mood is dark and suits our seasonal feeling well, hoping for peace. Thank you Bjorn
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“A season of funereal beauty, so easy on my eyes, yet unsettled in my heart,”.. sigh.. this is incredibly deep and evocative! Thank you so much for writing to the prompt 💝💝
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Beautifully written! ‘Until then I must winter well, reflect and refresh.’ – this is what I wish to do too, as we head into winter here in New Zealand.
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I keep forgetting that your just across the way, yes our southern times, thank you so much Carol.
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This phrase is breathtaking when it comes to changing seasons … in a poem of truly wonderful lines …
“it can be anticipated but never presumed, longed for but never known until it chooses”
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Helen ❤️ Thank you so much for that, I’m so thrilled it spoke .
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you Chuck
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Always a pleasure to read and share your posts with followers, Paul!! Hope you had a great day!
😊👍✨✨🎉
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Truly beautiful writing; makes one want to weave through the words again and again. Let’s hope the coming Winter is as kind to us.
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Yes, I share that hope – thank you for sharing.
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Acceptance and contentment in the present season. I like that.
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No other way really, just to be, thank you Mish
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Wow great words – it created in me those moods – I know them well
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You do indeed, wintering well is of course that wonderful metaphor for how we live.
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