Midnight’s snowfall shimmers
through the boughs
of old growth
in moonlit forest
deep and still
it blankets
our high-mountain meadow
in crystal down
a great white owl
echoes
this winter night
through frosted cedars
lover and beloved
we dream
warm in each others arms
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rob kistner © 2022
Poetry at: dVerse
Love the image – love the words. I am most smitten with these:
“it blankets
our high-mountain meadow
in crystal down”
The use of “down” with snow as it “blankets” the area….loving this. So very peaceful and serene.
Thank you very much Lil… 🙂
I enjoyed reading this Rob, and the ending is perfection.
Thank you True… 🙂
Rob, I appreciate your intimate connection with nature. You couldn’t write this without having spent a lot of time out there in it.
Thank you Lisa — many many many years, since I was 16 years old. Between Canada and the PacNW — hiking, camping, drift boating, and fishing — never hunting, not my thing personally. My days in the wilderness ended with my 2 minutes of clinical death while in Evergreen Hospital, then revival, and the immediate emergency implanting of my pacemaker, 6 years ago. That entire episode exacerbated my insulin resistant diabetes, started my arthritis in my hands, and severely exacerbated my peripheral neuropathy in my feet, making walking impossible for more than very short distances, and only with my cane. Losing my ability to trek deep into the wilderness has broken my heart. 🙁
Wow, Rob! You gave me a chill with all that shimmering snow and the owl in frosted cedars and made me wait for some warmth – you kept the passion right until the end.
That made the under cover snuggling that much warmer Kim… 😉
The whole piece is just perfect 🙂
Thank you Angela… 😉
Enjoyable poem.
Thank you Arcadia… 🙂
Love the contrast between the warmth together and that cold wintry night.
Thank you Björn, contrast was exactly what I was going for. And I love the sense of warmth on a winter night entwined in the arms of my lover.
So lovely, Rob. You contrasted the cold night with warmth perfectly.
Thank you Punam… 🙂