Chill Metamorphosis Aired

what wakes in first snow what sleeps what change is manifest origin point snow births in cloud layers in sky heights moisture freezes snow settling over woodlands over trees limbs over branches over twigs brown bare becomes white frozen despair harvest fields forsaken silent stealth soft descent slow sky fall seconds flutter snow minutes swift in minutes slow in hours swallow landscapes entomb fields winter comes snow flake creeps across harvest fields abandoned yields to winter's grips birds passage migrate silent shadows migration flight arcs across sky silent soft slow descends snowflakes birds farmers abandon fields sealed silent soft slow spectacle snow falling snow set against cloudy sky woods brood carpeted mystical shadows creep snow flake flutter increases to stay pause or fleet flee depart contemplate snowflake virginity cloudy fancies suddenly shape imply an inner turmoil even as troubled heart doth make white a transgression countenance confession anxious arises primeval fears will winter this season bite hard starvation ice ravage this land snow white confessional intent not revealed blue nature oblique absorbs latent enormity ambient heavens crystals sow written personified freeze troubled snowflake sky reveals chill grief still air feels ice troubled sky burden snow sheds read declaration snow declares writ in the air slow silent syllables recorded focus shift from snow to transformation metamorphosis shock air is experiencing change woods stripped bare naked bodies exposed await crystal white gowns to crown afterglow glory spent past leaf change intoxicating exciting invigorating peppered mind in pastel hues allure flirtatious veiled advances autumn fall last silent fall of spring folly summer ripe memories leaves echo metaphorically nature God recorded in fall of leaves in empty garden fall of snow snow-flakes leaves man humanity spent falls like snow-flakes spent leaves in glorious fall wheat harvest wheat and weeds darnel wheat growth twins together grow in this world inseparable until harvest separations weeds burned immature wheat must harvest grow into ripe maturity seasons must pass leaves must fall birds of passage migration flight seasonal shifts bare woodlands winter white wood trees inseparable snow cloaked at distances harvest-fields forsaken during entirety of winter quilt covered snow contemplative brooding humanity sap fallen cloudy fatalities auspices winter prospects as chill air sheds snow-flakes first seeds of snow brooding autumn humanity sap fallen cloudy fatalities auspices winter prospects chill air sheds snow-flakes first flowers seeds of snow finger icicles birth buds seasonal humanity sap fallen cloudy fancies auspices augur omen prospects as air sheds snow-flakes soft seeds of snow foretell winter enduring secret despair written long in cloudy bosom hoarded the air whispers snowflake words frozen fingers settles autumn overtaken whispered revealed prophecy to wood to field winter hard comes to harvest-fields forsaken late plant spring crops yield in bounty Copyright © Terence George Craddock