December's Song

It trickles in snowflake abandon

Hovering on the frost-keen air

Gentle yet urgent its anthem

A minuet; Joy versus Despair

It wafts in white, whimsical cadence

Softening in somnolent strain

Rising rhapsody of romance

A rare, reminiscent refrain

From tree-limb’s threadbare vesture

A tender mantra of farewell

Roams through the cold, barren pasture

And moans in the stricken dell

List to the song of the season

Draped in a dazzling shawl

Over life’s reckoning reason

Sweet let its melody fall

List to the hymn of December

Hope, joy and peace falling down

Ballad of love-blended memories

As another year dons its crown

© Janet Martin