Stars and Midnight Blue
In winter stillness
deep within the Earth Mother
tiny seeds gestate.
White rose in winter
miracles we don’t expect
our God comes to earth.
A long winter sleep
introspective mother bear
prepares for new life.
Christmas Eve arrives
children with eyes wide open
Stars and Midnight Blue.
Nature celebrates
light in the midst of darkness
a Christmas story.
Lobster and champagne
leaving the past behind us
ring in the New Year.
Harsh winds bitter cold
North Dakota immigrants
Giants in the Earth.
Escape winter cold
snowbirds get out of this place
fly to Palm Desert.
Quote:
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth
Poem:
The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of pine-trees crushed with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Favorites:
Word: Stillness
Flower: Rose
Animal: Bear
Song: Stars and Midnight Blue by Enya
Movie: A Christmas Story
Food: Lobster
Book: Giants in the Earth
Town: Palm Desert, California
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