Winter Leaving

Good poem to bid adieu to winter and welcome spring. I think it could have been in two stanzas with "No leaves yet" beginning the second stanza. This could also separate end of winter and beginning of spring.

I especially loved the lines
No leaves yet
if not for a few light-green
almost transparent and sticky ears
standing up listening to
winter leaving,
her shuffling steps and tears
running through the nose
so nobody sees it.

Yes..."Winter asking why she has to leave" would give her a voice to express her reluctance. As for meter I am not qualified to make any comment since I do not have any handle on it.
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I often don't feel I've read a poem till I've read it aloud. And this one needed it.
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1BsoD2GFazU

And I'll tell you a secret. I always copy the poem into Word and remove all the line breaks and replace stanza breaks with line breaks. So it looks like a page of prose and the words have to make their own pacing,cadence, meter, caesurae or whatever. Knowing that listen to it again. Parts of it like-
Steaming slope.
River banks.
Thicket, filled with warbler, rocks. [does that mean thickets filled with a type of bird called a warbler?]
No leaves yet

Are just list words, they play a disruptive part in the poems voice.

A toch of white on the red dirt [touch]

"running through the nose
so nobody sees it."
Eh? I think it is graphic. Everyone notices a runny nose. Eeew.

I think the poem is no so much unfinished as needs some work, it has the potential for a gentle, wistful musicality.

To create "winter asking why she has to leave" you may consider a minor expansion to the line "winter leaving" with

winter leaving
with heavy steps [or feet]
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I unfortunately see the poem as quite finished, needing some tweaks (below). But the idea of the poem, of idea that winter crying to herself as the early leaves perk up their ears is fantabulous.
I would fix this a bit, and consider it done.
for an unfinished workshop, you'll have to do better.

- a typo- i suppose touch of white, not toch (which i looked up to be sure )
- I would make something like the wind to be the cause of the lost dairy page, as if it blew away
- i would omit "Stone walls keep the warms" I don't understand this line
- i would put it as "Thickets filled with warblers, rocks.
-New stanza starting, no leaves yet

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Full on revisions. Yet I think you kept what you wanted to say, just said it a lot better.

Wow, great editing job. The poem is now far more coherent, and different parts now connect in an easy flow. I felt it listed incongruent parts originally, Now I feel a smooth logical flow. In my opinion it went from choppy to beautiful, just like that. Bravo.

and I think all agree a better one. I like the form of stanza's and the rich physical development of the central idea in word play. I like the longer lines in these versions, 5-7 words which give a line a chance to develop, add richness and images. I think the poem is right lenght, too many poems I've been seeing lately are too short. 20 lines is perfect.
Essentially both the original and revised follow the same poetic idea, a strong central theme. Love the personification of winter as a her, as opposed to 'old man winter' which is in our culture the image I grew up with.
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Marvelous revisions on two counts. One because of making the poem marvelous and two for continuing to make me marvel at your poetic skills. Personally the last line was like a crack in a beautiful vase...
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