Fleeting and Precious

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Time stops

for a moment, frozen

The bay

hides her secrets under

a cold, varnished lid

Branches of tall oaks

sheathed in shimmer

Pine needles

ensconced in ice

Winter's toothpicks

Dogwood

dripping diamonds

Ephemeral jewels

fleeting and

precious.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Tuesday Platform

Note: I was inspired by the caption to a FB post from Dusty and Vicki Rhoades which read, "Dogwood dripping diamonds"

The Girl Who Loved Winter Sleeps

image by Rosie Hardy, self-portrait

The girl who loved winter

knew warmth

Kissed by a dream

Morpheus seduced

She slept

Snowflakes fell

like sand in her eyes

The wind rocked her

in its icy arms

and sang to her a haunting lullaby

She slept

a deep and primal sleep

A she-bear in her cave

Embraced by long black hair

A blanket of herself

thick and sweet-smelling

The girl who loved winter

cossetted by the cold

felt warm

The winter sheltered her 
like a puppy wrapped in an eiderdown quilt

A small beating heart

within the vast whiteness.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Sunday Mini Challenge, First and Last Lines (in which we are to take a last line from a previous poem and make it the first line of a new one.  I used two last lines: The Girl Who Loves Winter III and The Longing and made them my first three lines of this one.

Winter Poem

Winter by whooa

The cold has slowed the noise of restless Fall

and hoarfrost coats the grass beneath our feet

From Autumn's warmth descends December's pall

The cold has slowed the noise of restless Fall

Eath's shoulders draped within a white prayer shawl

We contemplate another year complete

The cold has slowed the noise of restless Fall

and hoarfrost coats the grass beneath our feet.

submitted for Thursday Think Tank at Poets United