what wakes
in first snow
what sleeps
what change
is manifest
origin point
snow births
in cloud layers
in sky heights
moisture freezes
snow settling
over woodlands
over trees limbs
over branches
over twigs
brown bare
becomes white
frozen despair
harvest fields
forsaken
silent stealth
soft descent
slow sky fall
seconds flutter
snow minutes
swift
in minutes
slow in hours
swallow landscapes
entomb fields
winter comes
snow flake creeps
across harvest fields
abandoned yields
to winter's grips
birds
passage
migrate
silent
shadows
migration
flight
arcs
across
sky
silent
soft
slow
descends
snowflakes
birds
farmers
abandon
fields
sealed
silent
soft
slow
spectacle
snow
falling snow
set against
cloudy sky
woods brood
carpeted
mystical
shadows
creep
snow
flake
flutter
increases
to stay
pause
or fleet
flee
depart
contemplate
snowflake
virginity
cloudy
fancies
suddenly
shape
imply
an
inner
turmoil
even
as
troubled
heart
doth
make
white
a transgression
countenance
confession
anxious arises
primeval fears
will winter
this season
bite hard
starvation
ice ravage
this land
snow white
confessional
intent not
revealed
blue nature
oblique absorbs
latent enormity
ambient heavens
crystals sow
written
personified
freeze troubled
snowflake
sky reveals
chill grief
still air feels
ice troubled
sky burden
snow sheds
read
declaration
snow
declares
writ
in
the
air
slow
silent
syllables
recorded
focus
shift from
snow
to
transformation
metamorphosis
shock air is
experiencing
change
woods
stripped
bare
naked
bodies
exposed
await
crystal
white
gowns
to crown
afterglow
glory
spent
past
leaf
change
intoxicating
exciting
invigorating
peppered mind
in pastel hues
allure flirtatious
veiled advances
autumn fall
last silent fall
of spring folly
summer ripe
memories
leaves
echo
metaphorically
nature
God
recorded
in fall
of leaves
in empty
garden
fall
of snow
snow-flakes
leaves
man
humanity
spent falls
like snow-flakes
spent leaves
in glorious fall
wheat harvest
wheat and weeds
darnel wheat
growth twins
together grow
in this world
inseparable
until harvest
separations
weeds burned
immature wheat
must harvest grow
into ripe maturity
seasons must pass
leaves must fall
birds of passage
migration flight
seasonal shifts
bare woodlands
winter white
wood trees
inseparable
snow cloaked
at distances
harvest-fields
forsaken
during entirety
of winter quilt
covered snow
contemplative
brooding humanity
sap fallen cloudy fatalities
auspices winter prospects
as chill air sheds snow-flakes
first seeds of snow
brooding
autumn
humanity
sap fallen
cloudy
fatalities
auspices
winter prospects
chill air sheds
snow-flakes
first
flowers
seeds of snow
finger icicles
birth buds
seasonal humanity
sap fallen cloudy fancies
auspices augur omen prospects
as air sheds snow-flakes
soft seeds of snow
foretell
winter
enduring
secret
despair
written
long in
cloudy
bosom
hoarded
the air
whispers
snowflake words
frozen fingers
settles
autumn
overtaken
whispered
revealed
prophecy
to wood to field
winter hard comes
to harvest-fields forsaken
late plant spring crops
yield in bounty
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
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