COLORS OF SNOW
The bends of the road I drive flow past the places encased in snow…….
I. GREEN
Parchment paper pale
White on verdant green
The cold blanket dims vibrant colors
Encasing bright Spring noise in a quiet new world
Everything is hushed
And everyone sleeps
II. SCARLETT
A brief
explosion of red –
Fiery wings quickly blur –
The scarlett cardinal
Touches a China white blanket
Of Spring snow –
Then darts away
III. BLACK
Old, patched with new metal
Cobbling together bits and pieces from the century past
This red barn stands
Out in alone in the middle of the white cold sea
The cows, together,
Slowly, ponderously move
In the rhythm of the waves
Heavy ships on an unexpected ocean
Of an icy storm
IV. BLUE
Mirrored,
Greyed layered clouds
Piled high in frothy mounds
Flow over the surface of the small pond.
Inky black coots
Yellow beaks open,
Call across the waters
As the mist serenely rises
V. YELLOW
Clinging tightly to the feathered tip
Of the dry slender stalk of last year’s yellow cattail
A glossy redwing blackbird
Greets the morning
In joy
VI. RUST
Solitary,
her mate lies beneath the green lands now white
Her strong chestnut haunches flex
As she shakes her mane
She forages,
Tender new shoots delicately exposed
With the brush of her warm nose
Or strong hoof
Pushing aside the cold white
VII. FUSCHIA
Heavy hang the pink-purple boughs
Of cherried flowers
Beneath their white coat
Who protect the remaining place of verdant green
Beneath their leaning limbs
While bees and butterflies
Remain unseen
VIII. GREY
Hushed now
Diamond grey doves
Together warmly in their entwined nest
gently sigh and sleep
IX. WHITE
And I am home –
By my fireplace warm
And outside
The world is white.
HAPPY ART FOR A HAPPY HEART! 