Embracing winter

Drifting...

into the still placid of winter
The absence of color,
stains me with it’s melancholic comfort

Alone in this warm breath sigh,
that floats like cool fog
against a soot sky

Dawns soft laced caress
spills across the hills
I give my spirit intimately into it.

A reticent sun covered
It's intense golden heat hidden,
like a discreet lovers secret

Beyond, the north lies vast,
of snow, bone-white elegy
My restlessness held in the peace of solitude

I adore what is simple, and here
Where otherwise anechoic,
the slow creak of branches and the flight of birds
sing for me..