Ode To Winter

Light splashes in the eyes and vibrate My heart to a rich ecstatic state Joy is the only bird in the leaden sky Calling the winds to choir on high And I in the crystal world spin and spin Till shards of snow caress the face Like a pillow from scraps of watery tin And all green and all colors erased. Cast back the old belief of isolation Of wintry purgatory and grief, jubilation Is a white sheet of innocence here The sinner like a diamond in the air Frost symbol of death, and Lewis hopelessness Shall not sing my song without regret I take a different motif for my symbolic crest The beginning of the pain I now forget. Let Persephone sleep, my Yalda is here The white breast of her flesh my pear And I a child in a new womb of innocence Drink of pure light and devote my sense To leaps of faith from promise to spring The eternal moment when season shall keep Ivory joys before the bright immortal king Just like a seed of winter vacating sleep.