Sidney Beck Poet Quatrain

When Does Winter Start In Russia ?

WHEN   DOES   WINTER   START   IN    RUSSIA  ?


The omnipotent season?  -   Whenever  it wants to !
Today  October  field  was first-snow   flaked.  
First of a horde.  This is not  a peaceful coup
When autumn begins politely by contract. 

Last week I saw leaves burning gold,
But their cold heat was an illusion,
No warm defence ‘gainst the winter cold.
Theirs  was no  flame of conflagration.

It was  a  mere seeming  fire-moat
But cold fire, not burning - just the yellow 
Of coward leaves turning coat 
At the hint of the white army certain to follow.

For the sunshine has almost surrendered. 
His  morning  face struggled over the low roof,
It hesitated all the short day and decided 
to depart early,  defeated    -   proof

That winter starts whenever  it  has a notion.
This  first flake was  a trumpet announcing 
The immense white horde’s  cold intention 
Of riding roughshod  and merciless over everything,

And stating that nothing will stop it.
Not seeming  flames from  leaf,
Not equinoctal dates.    Nothing.    You must submit
To the assault  -  and just hope for  relief.



( 12 th    October   2010 )

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