Winter P's and Q's

Winter P’s and Q’s Poised in the alluring perfume Of dawn’s first light, Robed in views of new unbroken snows, Like winter’s penance of poise, Palms of Spanish Dagger with steel blue spikes Send up quick questions in quaint quandary To threatening platinum skies Of their intentions to quiver in a repeat rondeau With the poise of a midwinter minuet By sending snowflakes to cover the harbor quay, The gaudy gallery of empty tree limbs And haunting gnomes of frozen fences posts To fill the space around their round hearts Then leave their empty arms entreating the cold sky Now wearing new identities as porcupine snowballs! Based on seeing spikey plants in a snowstorm. Eight words used: platinum, penance, poise, perfume quay, quiver, quandary, quaint 3-1-21 Contest: Mind Your P’s and Q’s Sponsor: Michelle Faulkner