~A Sad Winter’s Rain ~

The silence of another gloomy day

is disturbed by a restless wind

drumming a loose shutter

at the locked window

Just as suddenly it swooped,

swirling lingering leaves high

to fall again on ashen snow

Dirty clouds scuttle in

looking like rags that

swabbed a filthy floor

Without the fanfare

of lightning’s jagged teeth

and thunders booming roar

the sky convulsed 

shaking  off millions of pewter rain drops

that pecked at the remaining snow

like barnyard hens

Dusk began sliding in behind

 rain that resembled shimmering

curtains of smoke

as it swallowed the day

© January 2008

Carole Mathys