REBORN

 

Mountain snows thawing

Swollen rivers causing

Nature dormant awakening

New life into breathing

Sprouting shoots arriving

Early cherry blossoming

Annual event occurring

Life’s cycle repeating

Springtime refreshing

Simple senses pleasing

God’s design believing

THE SNOW QUEEN

 

The Snow Queen Banished

To Slumber Again Unseen

As Mother Nature Paints

Again, The Landscape Green

DARK DAYS OF WINTER

     

Stinging sleet on north winds blow

Biting wind brings driving snow

Freezing fog with bitter chill

Frost and ice over vale and hill

Long cold nights and short dark days

These are winters unfriendly ways

A WINTER NIGHT

 

Like a ribbon that's spun

Of the purest of silk,

The road crossed the cold bleak dale

It appeared that the frost

On the wintry panes

Was embossed with images from beyond the pale

And the winter-sky, 

Lit with the moon and the stars,

Made the icicles glow in the night-

And the beauty of all

Of that December view

Was perceived in the essence of light-

And deceived by the soft...firelight.

THROUGH FROSTED GLASS

 

The sheltered lowlands

In valleys by the acre

Dusted white as if

Sugared by a cake decorator

A picturesque fairyland

A scene of pure delight

Viewed through a window

You avoid the winter’s bite

Trees stripped bare

Dressed now in ice and frost

Shiver in the wind

Longing for the summer lost

WINTER WHITE

 

Snow falling softly - silently

Covered landscapes - evenly

Turning darkness into light

Shrouded in clinical white

Days of blue sky’s bright

Clear frost filled night

WINTER

 

Standing in the hushed silence

Breath pluming in the frost filled air

Beneath the deep velvet blue of the night sky

Broken only by the myriad of glistening stars

My futile thoughts are lost in its enormity

I’m suddenly startled by my own insignificance

I feel alone, hopeless, and helpless 

A bitter chill touches my bones

I walk on over the linen shrouded land

Footsteps treading crisply in the white

My breath still plumes though less so

The velvet curtain of night has gone

Hidden behind grey, brown clouds

Then the cold frosty night was no more

As the wind freshens against my cheek

And in that instant fresh snow falls

Seemingly silencing my footfalls  

Large soft flakes drifting haphazardly

Like confetti on a wedding day

Or cherry blossom in springtime

It fell faster, then faster still

Quickly obscuring my footprints

And blinding my view, disorienting

A bitter chill again touched my bones

The wind now stung my face with snow

As the blizzard of bridle white blew

I bent into the northerly gale

Head down eyes narrowed almost closed

I stopped briefly to catch my breath

Insignificance washed over me again

I knew I must go north into the mouth of it

The silent hush was no more as the blizzard blew

My feet no longer crunched on frost and ice

The deepening snow slowing my progress

Each step I must drag my feet from the snows grip

With each step I grow wearier

Feeling hopeless and helpless

Alone, insignificant, and small,

Smaller than a single snowflake

Smaller than the snowflakes around me

A bitter chill again touched my bones

Then suddenly I am again filled with hope

As I pass between the old wrought iron gates

Into the city street beyond and home