Winter Sonata - POTD

Winter Sonata 11-29-23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Winter Sonata In grave allegro solo grey gathers, Strings of winter fantasias Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants, Downbeats for the first movement As shivering sleet wipes away bucolic barcarolles Rocking on sapphire barges, Harbingers of hoarfrost and hibernation, When leafless boughs conduct the opening motif To summon deepening darkness From restrained shadows of turbulence To beat warnings on frosted windows Of snug dens – sheltered hallows. Sweet solstice flutes sing adagio Then scatter crystalline mists across snow packed paths In the movement pathetique when sunglow Glides between aspen, Ankle deep in fleecy billows, Sugar flakes flutter in Heaven’s perfect pitch Rhythmic silent rests hypnotize crisp midnights When fluttering flakes of dreamy andantes Ride on melodic cantabile whispers In flurries of fleecy decrescendos Spells of codas, enthralled by idle snowfall, Glitter in lyric tinsel of sparkling crystal beads on twigs. Movement presto crescendos in frenzied storms Snowfall pizzicatos fall in descending measures When rondos of wind song ensembles Ascend in frigid notes of icy scales That pirouette in pulsing beats with resonate strings Plucked by boreas in thundersnows percussions, Vivace mistrals whirl in powdery ghosts That spin in tremolo trills of icicles, And in whiteout scherzos of blizzard sonatas, Dizzy with solstice frosty fevers As winter’s thundering cadence modulates Into vernal sighs of resolution.