The wind was so strong it pushed the snow through the screen on my balcony and covered the glass doors! The snow is knee-deep on my balcony by the doors, where the wind blew it and it caught with no where else to go. Down in the parking lot, the vehicles sit in cozy little wells except for the truck on the end, where the wind has blown the snow up on its side and over the roof of its cab. It’s actually nice and bright outside but the wind still howls and the trees sway here and there, swirling, twirling, confused in the wild north-easter.
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snow days and ice days (poem)
0can’t see the fine rain
but the tree branches are getting whiter
by the minute collecting ice
on every twig and bough
it’s not so much a snow day
as it is an ice day
with the frosty breath
of winter freezing the spittle of march
on everything it touches.
A winter night (poem)
0Wispy wraiths drift lazily across the indigo
Gently grazing rooftops
Catching cottony tails
In the pines thrusting their spears
Into the airy soup
Snowflakes drift aimlessly to and fro
Following a fickle breeze
Brushing against pink cheeks
pink noses wrinkling in delight
Following a fickle breeze
Swirling with lazy snowflakes
Landing on pink tongues
Pudgy fingers grasp in the air
As toddling legs churn up resting snowflakes
That join the swirling white flurries
Waltzing with the wispy wraiths
Around the playful pair
And as the deep indigo fades
The wraiths lay the snowflakes gently
gently
on tired legs
tired fingers
cold noses
cold cheeks
Indigo lips
Of two babes forever asleep
Under a blanket of resting snowflakes
Then drift lazily away across the pale pink
Gently grazing rooftops
Catching cottony tails
In the pines thrusting their spears
At the rising sun.
© Cindy Lapeña, 2007