Winter Tide

Winter's wrath falls heavily
from ghostly December skies
Slaughterous winds burn like iced fire,
sleeting peppery powder, stinging,
Snow-blind in its painful whiteness
The graceful Swans and Mallards descend
impacting the thick slabbed glacier
sheeting their usual shimmering lake,
Involuntary hunger strikes
in long episodes from merciless Winter tide.

The panoramic landscape - Winter's white wedding
scattering its laced confetti, veiling scenic contours,
bedazzled by the purest white gown
Crowning ice-capped evergreen tree-tops
in its frosty encrusted jewels
Spangled pine cones adorn like ear-rings,
twinkling in ice-kissed bliss
as icicle shards hang, frozen in time...

D.C.M