This Poem was Submitted By: Dellena Rovito On Date: 2007-03-22 20:11:03 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Bauble Less

Winter's skeleton silhouettes against the sky showing it's bare to bones basics. Backdrop lit showing, creases, folds,  curves and sways of naked branches. Details unnoticed with foliage dressing. Beneath all coverings, lies purity. No need to be more than what it is. No need for baubles, bells, or lights.  Only the intrinsic need to be must be…

Copyright © March 2007 Dellena Rovito


This Poem was Critiqued By: Claire H. Currier On Date: 2007-03-31 09:19:56
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.93750
Beautiful way to expose the wear of winter snow and gusts of winds as Spring bursts forth.......the earth awakening in so many different ways indeed baubles are not needed for they arrive in due time as does birth and this time of the year makes me think of new life.......the trees are empty of their new folliage but soon here in New England the trees will bud as they have already in other parts of the country. I enjoyed the images you have presented with your pen; I often think it reminds me of me..........need to get to work on those extra pounds winter left here in Tully. Thanks for posting my friend; you can always be counbted on to burst forth with the best. God Bless, Claire


This Poem was Critiqued By: marilyn terwilleger On Date: 2007-03-24 14:41:51
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.87500
Hi D...this is a lovely poem from your talented pen. Your words give a perfect image in my mind of bare trees silhoueted against the sky. Not yet dressed in their spring foliage, but still beautiful. There is a sense of purity in Nature's seasons...all are beautiful and should be enjoyed for just what they are. No need to embellish Mother Nature scenes, unlike so many things in life we must leave them as they are with their intrinsic need just to be. One could easily interpet this as a metaphor for life or perhaps even the state of our world today. However, I just want to enjoy the wonder without all the strife. Good poem...well done. Cheers....Marilyn
This Poem was Critiqued By: James C. Horak On Date: 2007-03-23 17:54:44
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
"purity", (lies) "Beneath all covering" is, if adopted, the most feared realization of our government-gone-security-ape-s...t. any sentence can frame. "Only the intrinsic need to be must be" the statement of the wholly unembellished, an excellent end for a poem paralleling well the season with the exposure of what lies beneath "foliage dressing"...or, as Moliere' might have put it, behind, the mask. I think you might enjoy Moliere's most presented play, La Tartuffe (The Women,) Dellena. Seeing it performed well is a blast. You are stark with both imagery and line, as well your message finds appropriate. Don't let anyone tell you, "it's too preachy". We'll buy them an anvil and fasten it to them with barbed wire and off to the Atlantic Trough. That's a crash course in curing the "artsy". Enjoyed your poem. JCH
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