We Wake to Winter...

We wake to winter warmth

The emptiness of dusk

Is wrapped within a mantle where

The wind roved wild and brusque

Then, while we were asleep

Heaven softly unfurled

A merry, mercy-melody

Upon a weary world

We wake to winter-white

Gone, earth’s grim, sullen stance

A filament of child-delight

Renders post-card romance

And where bloom-shimmering

Decked summer’s smiling girth

Ten-thousand-thousand kisses wing

Their way from God to earth

We wake to wonderlands

An argent aftermath

Of angel-throng and silver-song

Falling from heaven’s path

Sleep well, oh, slumb’ring seed

Beneath your quilt of snow

For soon you’ll hear your mother say

Wake up, it’s time to grow

© Janet Martin

Victoria woke with a big smile; sometime in the night the snow returned!