Winter Whispers

the sun slid downward

slipping past the horizon

tossing up colors

to lay across the new snow

muted afterglow of pinks

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like bony fingers

bare branches hug a full moon

on a snowy night

threads of pale yellow moonlight

drizzled down the weathered tree

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silver reflections

frozen in winters snowfall

captured in moonlight

touching nature’s sleeping form

when silence falls from the sky

© Carole Mathys

January 2009