Theodore Roethke: It Was Beginning Winter

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It Was Beginning Winter

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by Theodore Roethke
(1908 - 1963) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

20th Century

It was beginning winter.
An in-between time.
The landscape still partly brown:
The bones of weeds kept swinging in the wind,
Above the blue snow.

It was beginning winter.
The light moved slowly over the frozen field,
Over the dry seed-crowns,
The beautiful surviving bones
Swinging in the wind.

Light traveled over the wide field;
Stayed.
The weeds stopped swinging.
The mind moved, not alone,
Through the clear air, in the silence.

-- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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Themes

Crown

Light

Silence

Snow

Recommended Books

	The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, by Theodore Roethke
	The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke, by Allan Seager
	On Poetry and Craft, by Theodore Roethke
	Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs
	Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, by Theodore Roethke

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