<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0114 Winter Sunlight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delicate, so frail now, almost<br>apologetic for their presence, <br>like the longtime bed-bound<br>taking their first unaccompanied walk, <br>hardly able to believe their fortune, on<br>this unexpected day of sunlight<br>offering hope to weakest winter body -<br>yet exploratory, determined, in<br>their frailty; invisibly heroic –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the tendrils of the jasmine explore, <br>survey with vegetable mind, the frontiers of the empire which<br>they plan to flood with scent some secret<br>time ahead; how can a stem that looks<br>like fine, dead wire, carry all the ruthlessness<br>of Nature’s will, in so tentative disguise? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sunlight on this white winter wall, <br>as a slight breeze waves the exploratory tendrils, <br>throws up the sharp shadow of this filigree<br>like twin explorers of the year’s new world<br>dancing with each other; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a Japanese artist, seeking a new kimono<br>patterned to show where nature, <br>truth and beauty meet, might feel the need, <br>confronted by so delicate a sketch<br>of Spring’s new plans, <br>to grow as this jasmine, <br>exploring the unknown so carefully.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460593" data-title="0114 Winter Sunlight de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Delicate, so frail now, almost apologetic for their presence, like the longtime bed-bound taking their first unaccompanied walk, hardly able to believe their fortune, on this unexpected day of sunlight offering hope to weakest winter body - yet ..."></div> </div> </div>

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