Mid-winter Memento

Inspired by today's true story...😊

 

I planned to tend to Task-demand

But then a sea of snowflakes fell

It drew me to the hill and dell

To revel in its wonderland

…where nature’s winter-wand unfurled

Masterpiece over masterpiece

Teasels with toques of frosted fleece

And whipped cream snow drifts, swirled and twirled

Each tree, a pencil sketch, I think

Stenciled and traced with white finesse

White whispers of white happiness

Rouse a reverent rush of ink

…as brook-nooks that no chill can snare

Compose somber half-ballads, oh

Its tempo, curtailed by the snow

Evokes a eulogy-like air

Where in the wood I stood, full-awed

Unfazed by Tasks I should attend

To marvel, where earth's pages bend

Beneath the poetry of God  

© Janet Martin