Snowflakes and Embers

Snowflakes fall from Heaven's open door white stars of night glow on the shadowed floor, beneath a pale moon slipping 'tween skulking clouds floating listless blown by soft, silent winds to shrouds down on to earth touching the hardened ground piling one upon another without a sound. The New Year celebrations just about to begin gather wood for the fire pit's crackling thru the din stoking the leaves and branches there laid warming the gatherers for the year end display chilled yet braving the bone chiling cold the embers glow burnt red eyes in the snow. For a moment hanging on the clock the snow and embers blend together in the rocks and sizzled steamings rise as smoky specters of the night leering in the hollows, calling winsome shrills on their flight to warm and chill in the same time that ticks away fading seconds welcoming the new year's day.