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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 86. Three Winter Walks
Icicles
catch the morning’s first light,
trapping pink, purple and yellow-green
within their bent and bubbled walls beneath the eaves,
bearing a moment’s purgatory
before shifting, changing
into day.
~~~
Upon the walk near my abode
Dame Nature gifts of ice bestowed
whereon with step most ill-advised
I blithely trod apace, unslowed.
It may now safely be surmised
that I, by slickness so surprised,
to Newton’s laws a victim fell,
and so by gravity chastised.
I danced the briefest tarantelle,
the ground my feet seemed to repel,
and horizontal was I viewed:
to earth my form stretched parallel.
An instant did this interlude
endure till I lost altitude
and I again the earth bestrode
with epithets both rich and rude.
~~~
Look close and see hushed secrets in the snow,
encrypted details hinted to the eye,
reflected in faint shadows far below
bare, bony branches stretching to the sky.
Upon white whimsied drifts has nature writ;
a mouse’s love, deciphered at a glance,
or owls, whose eloquence the oaks befit,
which underneath the silent stars may dance.
Yet other signs and signals are more plain
and legible to eyes that will enquire –
fresh footprints merging closely in the lane,
returning to a cozy hearth and fire,
where cuddled on a blanket meant for two
one hardly needs to guess what we might do.
Already the evenings are getting lighter. Still, Winter will be with us for a while. I won't put my shovel away until May. If you have any comments or observations, I'd be glad to see them.
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