On Winter Shores

by Yankee4youSt. Albans, Vermont, USA

Dec 2013 863 Views 13 comments

On Winter Shores

Restless lake you’ve become all blue and grey
Crashing waves now crust on your icy screes
Hear the winter winds come howling away
When cold drops below tolerable degrees

Faced with mighty hunger a gull awaits
Motionless and crouched in its ruffled plume
Ever searching eyes scanning sharp with fate
Shimmering morsels with scales to consume

My thoughts drift slowly away like the snow
Swirl lightly like dancing feathers or leaves
All around me cast an eerie shadow grow
Anything my mind perceives or believes

Quiet the days in dusky December
Mirrored into my mind shall remember

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Posted: Dec 2013

About this poem:

The most surreal images of a late winter day sitting by a shoreline.

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Comments (13)

Yankee4youOPSt. Albans, Vermont USADec 8, 2013

NU, the numbness of this season sometimes is the hardest thing to write about and capture more than anything its mood...

darkhorse555donegal, Donegal IrelandDec 8, 2013

very beautifully drawn picture dear friend

orientalkoruGlenella, Queensland AustraliaDec 8, 2013

"Restless lake you’ve become all blue and grey
Crashing waves now crust on your icy screes
Hear the winter winds come howling away
When cold drops below tolerable degrees"

you made me miss winter...except we have it in NZ between June - August...

Yankee4youOPSt. Albans, Vermont USADec 11, 2013

Thanks Liam...this one was very special to me...for everyday in every corner of this world there are many interesting and sometimes beautiful things happening. The thing about winter is how dangerously beautiful it is....but nothing feels as desolate and also inviting then sitting on a frozen lake pulling perch through a hole in the ice on a sunny day....

trurorobAlicante, Valencia SpainDec 12, 2013

Lovely sonnet Chris, I felt I could see the scene which is what we all seek.
Rob

Happychatty1unknown, Lancashire, England UKJan 7, 2019

My first time reading this descriptive poem on your winter season Yankee4you
I know embrace and see the beauty in the nature that surrounds you in every season and your poems reflect that
Thanks for sharing this, now others can read it for the first time too and enjoy it as I have

EXREDNorthumberland, England UKJan 7, 2019

And this poem last over the years it is so real a very good read

Happy New Year to you

yasparkWilliamsville, New York USAJan 7, 2019

«My thoughts drift slowly away like the snow” - so true for December, thank you for that!

Yankee4youOPSt. Albans, Vermont USAJan 10, 2019

Thoughts of winter are never far away
When all around me is barren and grey

yasparkWilliamsville, New York USAJan 11, 2019

Maybe we need that quiet hibernating grey to recharge

salamunaDeventer, Overijssel NetherlandsJan 12, 2019

Very good read Yankee4you! it reflects all the beauty of nature. thnaks for sharing it . regards. Lilly

Yankee4youOPSt. Albans, Vermont USAJan 12, 2019

Yaspark,

Oh I agree I do need those quiet times for reflection in nature a lot more than I find time for. It's always very recharging for me to seek the solitude and listen and watch the world I am only one small part of.