A poem celebrating winter, on this snow day of no work or school for our family!
January anew
Sleepy blue shadows
stretch long in the snow
among baby cedars waiting
for old snags to crash
and create sunnier space
for their evergreen branches.
Wildflower seeds lay dormant
under molten oak leaves
patient in winter’s mock death
burrowing deeper
with each freeze
and thaw.
Like the brittle brown grasses
blowing in the frigid wind
I considered my dream lifeless
not daring to hope
for any answer
to buried prayers.
Today’s answer held surprised joy
like a January daffodil.
My heart basks in bright slanted rays
with the cedar’s winter berries
and the patient wildflower seeds, certain
spring will return.
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