Silky Silence
A Cow Stump in Wyoming Winter
You’ve hardly known a sensation of silk-ness
Like a glassy stump-touch while the cattle 'moothe'
The rough tree edges burnished brassy by asphalt hides
While the cold wind blows dry snow-dust clouds like summer road work
And the rancher calls like a ball-game vendor
While the ambling cattle disrupt the pond-still snow to approach the voice
Which echoes over the white landscape like a pigeon's wings in a snowy park
You’ve hardly known a sensation of silence
Like the 'moothing' of the cattle in the windy winter
Their asphalt hides marked with lane-lines of snow
While soft-round mouths mutter out puffs like factory smoke
And a bull bellows like a car alarm
While the fire-engine ford lays out an oversized sod-roll of hay
Which the cattle flock to like black pigeons on a spread of seed
You‘ve hardly known the silk-ness of silence
Like the quiet snow beneath the 'moothing' of the cattle
Brown gutter-ruts of hoofprints lined with hay
While white wedding cake hills watch over like bakery window shows
And a cow cuds its meal like a chewing-gum child
While the rancher stands near the polished stump and feels the texture
which the cattle rubbed glossy like a polished bowling Lane
You’ve hardly known a silence so silky
Like the "moothing" of the cattle in the silent snow
Their asphalt hides cobbled together on the winter range
While the ashy snow falls faintly like park leaves in autumn
And a glassy texture like cold marble at the finger tips
Though the world rubs rough with gutter-rut bellows and asphalt wings,
The hide-hard buffing gives this tree-stump life a silence as smooth as silk.
About the Creator
Judah LoVato
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Comments (10)
Perfect ❤️ Loved the music you created with your word choices and how you matched that with stunning imagery. ‘ white wedding cake hills’ and ‘ rough tree edges burnished brassy by asphalt hides’ for example. Stunning!
I was transported to the field and could see and the smell everything you described. Very nicely done!
I love the wedding cake hills, and the moothing of he cattle. A harsh landscape made easy on the eye by your beautiful words. Congrats on your gift of sight and sound.
A wonderful poem. Congrats on second place.
Really beautiful work! Congrats 🎉
So beautifully descriptive. Congrats.
Congratulations on second place win!!!
Congrats! Great use of language to evoke the piece's setting!
Such wonderful imagery in this! And you brought so many senses to life. I love the silence after a snowfall and this reminded of that quiet joy :)
This was a very unique and creative take at the challenge! Fantastic poem!