Whispering "Winter"

  

A blank white canvas
Lies on unresisting fields
Whispering "winter."

 

 Silence of winter
Drops slowly on the landscape
Without a shudder.

 

Three frosted pine cones
Lie at the edge of the road
Far from their mother.

 

 The chicken wire fence
Now stark against the white field--
Bleak winter contrast.

 

 A few white snow flakes
Dropping softly from the sky--
Foreshadow winter.

 

 Slipping silently
From house to house he slides:
Sneaky meter man.

 

Green courtiers have grown
Around the emperor stump.
Soon, they'll obscure him.

 

 With silent flutters
Small birds hop around the bush;
Winter meeting place.