See How They Run

see how they run

summer come and gone
see how they run

frost, its icy fingers
touched our lands this morning
light crept sluggishly 
from behind the horizon
to do battle for prominence
here above my cottage.

the white-cold face of winter
smiled surreptitiously
arrogant in knowing 
that his power made all life run
before him as sheep, 
stalked by the white wolf.

see how they  run!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Rees Avatar
September 11, 2019 at 12:23 PM
An imaginative description of approaching winter. ....stalked by the white wolf......just lovely. Thank you,Patricia.
Pigeon Tart Avatar
September 9, 2019 at 9:11 PM
I've missed your writing. Spellbinding piece dear poetess. xomo
Fleming Avatar
September 9, 2019 at 2:13 PM
Whenever you write about your home and the onset of approaching Autumn or Winter you always make your cottage sound so snug and appealing...you are able to attach such a lovely sense of drowsy contentedness associated with this sort of poetry. Loved it! Keep them coming, Patricia. :) john
Michael Avatar
September 9, 2019 at 1:25 PM
Run far far away...white wolf is coming...Nice one
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