Snowfalls

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Indigo coldness

     obscures starlight

twinkles are lost

     hidden from the sight

 

porch lights distant

     shining bright

flickering starbursts

     descending from the sky

 

crystals fragile

     in frigid air

blankets the walkways

     cold and bare

 

bundled deeply

     seeking warmth

visions of summer

     flow in my mind

 

half heard rumbles

     steel scrapes

scattering crystals

     hard and dry

 

rivers flow

     through the night

herding the storm

     to far away

 

radiant beams

     warmth away

as glittering starlight

     now appears

 

shines forth sunlight

     new dawning day

as endless rainbows

     spring into the view

 

enthalpy clings

     to sparkling light

ascending the hill

     of energy gain

 

crystals do slowly

     with changing state

droplets become

     and flow away

 

breeze slowly warming

     attacking the chill

bright blinding sunlight

     stealing away sight

 

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lyrycsyntyme's picture

This is truly beautiful and

This is truly beautiful and engrossing. But my favorite verse is the sixth one:

 

"rivers flow

     through the night

herding the storm

     to far away"

 

While I don't live by a river, it reminds me a lot of the creek near my cabin, rushing along after a thaw or rain. Sometimes it sounds like a small waterfall, as the the water races downhill, heading into a river and then out into a lake somewhere hours away. Spectacular, the way that you put the visual.

Seryddwr's picture

I love this beautiful poem. 

I love this beautiful poem.  The imagery is strong and immediate.  Somehow I missed the meaning of two of the lines . . . "Crystals do slowly / with changing state."  What are the crystals doing slowly?  Forgive me for being dense, but now my curiosity is piqued.


Seryddwr

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It say what in the next two

It say what in the next two lines