Winter's sights
on crispy nights
Firey dawn sky
Swans glide by

A reminder
Of days
When the sun
Stayed bright
And comets
They fell
In the depths
Of the night

When fledglings sang
In evergreen tree
A song of love
For you and me
When rain poured down
To replenish ground
And winds they blew
So the sun could shine thru

Now are the days
Post summer-haze
When leaves have fell
In autumn's spell
and lone bare trees
November does freeze
Turning white to blue
No buds shoot thru
This solid ground
As Robin's sound
Denied to grow
With winter's' blow

This barren terrain
Loves only in vein
Snow covering food
for badger's brood
White on white
Harsh but true
Sheltered dens
Where birds flock to

Unforgiving frosty morn
Supersedes
A crow-filled dawn
Cries of murder
Loudly Resound
Carcasses lie
Where fox prints are found

a cruel, cold day
A ransom to pay
Iced spears from the sky
Lone magpie flies by
Rabbits foot
Is not
A lucky charm here
Instead warmly wishes
Are shadowed with fear

A dark heavy veil
Marks summer's betrayal
A noiseless winter
stripped and laid bear
Tragically beautiful
The cold does reveal
And silently threatens
as lives it does steal