Saturday, 19 February 2022

A Poem a Day (495): Snow

I've posted this poem on JD Mader's Unemployed Imagination website. He has a weekly weekend writing exercise called 2minutesgo - just show up and write whatever you like or read everyone's stories. This is the link: 2minutesgo. Cheers :)

 

Snow

White, crisp, nonchalant,
a pale, spreading gracefulness,
so quiet, death wrapped.
 
Feet crunch granuled ground,
sticking green sepia leaves
and twigs upended.
 
Small hands snug inside
red gloves bark a stark contrast.
Drops of blood on pearl.

Salt-sprinkled brown winged,
a robin flits, red-breasted,
making small slick jumps.
 
Snow silences all,
ices over the cold ground,
everything closes.
 
Only birds’ wings sound,
flapping amid falling flakes.
Blue-black magpie croaks.

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, February 19, 2022

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