Eight Elements of Winter

last Autumn colours - lost in winter snow. twin vapour trails on sky November blue, Canada geese in formation- head south. November sombre,December dark, January,February cold and stark Rain filled days of slush and muck, webs on shards of gossamer shade 'til snowdrops matamorphise in the glade. On the lawn strewn leavings of a ravenous raptor- nature's journal leafs another chapter. makeshift banks overhang into drifts- snow falls icy blue winter arrives late- in the forest a stoat melts into a snowdrift out of the silence of the winter night, a single owl screech darkness descends- hunger abates the tiles dusted with snow- trickle down rivulets fill the rain butt