Thursday, January 11, 2024

Winter Weather Warning

     The winter weather warning was right! It snowed all day yesterday, and I am so happy! What a white and glorious wonderland is framed by my window!
    The firs and pines are bowed down with their white burden. Each limb of the apple tree is outlined with a ribbon of snow. Six inches of snow soften the ground. Humpy Mountain looks frozen in place.
    Everything is so still, hanging in the balance of beauty.
    Here is my

Ode to a Winter Landscape

Nothing is so beautiful as a winter landscape
    When fire-folks of frost in the frozen fields
        Wink rainbows at the morning sun
    When the unity of white undoes dappled things
    When the squeak of skis on snow
        sneaks into the unity of silence
        in the snow-muffled forest
    When the air is so cold it hurts your teeth to smile
        But you can't
                stop
                        smiling
Because nothing is so beautiful
    as snow-laden fir boughs against a cobalt sky
    the descending blue rushing towards whipped-cream peaks
Nothing is so beautiful as the kiss of snowflakes
    whisper-soft from steel-gray clouds
Nothing more magical than the inaudible fall
    of snow outside the window
    descending like down from overstuffed clouds
    the fire at your back shining like shook foil
Nothing is so beautiful as winter stars
    splintering in the cold air
    of a landscape which—
            winter scene
            sweet, especial winter scene—
                    is charged with grandeur
                                and
                    gathers to a greatness
                                of insuperable cold
                                unsurpassed silence
                                unconditional beauty

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