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
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