In a Snowflake

Breathless sighs, soft Dreams awakened, stirred To life by smokey gasps, air Cutting, biting… bitter Blustery cold, like the heart After a dismal divorce From someone who knows Every sorrow, each fear… All the dreams forbidden, Like the silence of the dawn Who is blanketed by white, snow Falling overnight, reminding Each puffing prayer that there is Gusting winds of change, Laughing through the flakes In quiet waves of inspiration, soothing Away the melancholic fright As night is erased by a sun reflecting Flurries raging between the pages Day and night – the moments Connecting silence and sound, Stormy weather and the moon’s Shimmering pleasures, singing Music in notes of turbulent Relenting into the breathlessness Raging, furious storms Relinquishing the silence Through the explosion of a blizzard Who reminds us all… Historically, we’re all merely Fragments, dust – a snowflake Melting beneath the warmth of the Son WINTER STORM Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Kim Rodrigues December 23, 2022