Slip sliding from chilled breeze
Slivers of flurries waltz
Softly mantling old trees
Silver-coated by rain:
Snaking down down glossed yard
Soon...frost will enchant you
Smile! Crystals peck your cheeks.
Categories:
mantling, image, snow,
Form: Pleiades
With such feminine flamboyancy
this maiden sways in breathtaking movements
flashing, flitting, flaming a sweet minuet--
beneath a mural of moonlight’s alchemy,
her flared gown fair as sequined feathers
that midway, in birdsong's sultry melody,
her flight of fancy floats on my garden- floor
and like a magical sylph in tints of magenta,
she mingles with blooms on lawn's mainstage—
oh this femme fatale; a Mayflower,
mantling the pageant of summer's first festival!
For Brian Strand : Alliteration Contest
Categories:
mantling, flower, magic, summer,
Form: Alliteration
First Snow
By morning's light, the world, robed in feathers clear and white, does appear to awakening eyes. Every twig and branch, every leaf and sprig of grass is encased in crystal and white. Lightly drifting, softly floating, it rises, Gentle yet mighty, it falls softly, yet slowly rising and building, a wall made of feathers, built of snowflakes a million strong. For miles, spread beneath the cold winter sun, it glitters and gleams, blinding to the eyes, like acres of diamonds, a glittering strand of inumerable prisms. Mantling the world in white, settling gently upon the needles of the pine and resting softly over the branches of the oak, it falls, settling on the lashes and brushing the cheeks of little children, come out to witness the first snowfall.
Categories:
mantling, beauty, children, december, sky,
Form: Ode