Winter Offensive

 Flash of pink and blue;
Muted shouts outside window;
School kids play next door.

 

 Large snow flakes drift down,
Casually making their way
To join their fellows.

 Birds in the bushes
Flit swiftly from branch to branch--
Get food and keep warm.

 

 

 

 Squirrel digs in the snow,
Looks weird but find what he wants;
And then scurries off.

 As the snow flakes fall
Ice pushes across the stream--
Winter offensive.

 

Where is the stream bed?
Deep below the sun flecked snow;
Waiting for the Spring.

 

They swerve gracefully--
Distinct and parallel lines:
Tire tracks in the snow.

 

 

The snow flakes have stopped;
Sky is no longer engorged
With punctuation.

 

The dragon ice child
Leans over the thin branches
With a frosty eye.