A Snowy Landscape

A Snowy Landscape

 

A white blanket has been laid on

My home, inert with a bedded silence

The stark silhouette of a winter's eve

Are beneath nature's membrane serene

A moment of suspended reality

In a place which yearned for respite

It came in the night with a relentless flurry

A hazy syndrome of swirling majesty

Settled now in a frozen mould

Caught by a warm whisper of the sun's rays

It dripped in despair despite its strength

Night comes with degrees of frost

To seal its presence under a hovering moon

All about has been gripped by the hand of winter's gloom

With an arm of muscular prowess

No welcome is offered or refreshment given

a brittle celluloid of black and white

do freeze the open shutter

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jennifer Malden

Fri 19th Feb 2021 17:37

Really vividly presented, and fantastic description of winter snow. 'The stark silhouette of a winter's eve, a relentless flurry, swirling majesty, gripped by the hand of winter's gloom, a brittle celluloid of black and white. Brilliant, and for what my opinion may be worth, one of your very best! Can't think why it didn't receive many more comments. jennifer

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Mon 25th Jan 2021 19:33

I like how there is a lot of movement in this poem, and I don't just mean the description of the way the snow moves but the fact that the onset of snow has been described in all of its stages. And then the poem ends in stuck stillness with the frozen and (implied?) unmoveable shutter.

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