FIRST SNOWFALL

always auspicious

a cause for celebration

it's early this year

autumn's burnt orange

beneath a dusting of powder

crows sound the morning alarm

seventeen blackbirds on bare branches

high contrast black and white

not to mention the cardinal in winter

shouting red like Santa Claus with a beak

I can almost hear Johnny Mathis

the air is bracing and wakes me up

at thirty degrees it's hard to imagine

there will be days sixty degrees colder

the woods are decorated like

the Ghost of Christmas Past

how many shades of gray can there be

with bittersweet flavor

and a yellow tone to the forest

fog rises like smoke signals

hemlocks frosted white

maples with perfect symmetry

blue spruces tint the night

with stars as ornaments

it's good to be alive

- Paresh


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