Welcome In The Winter

[Vapour Trail]

Somehow I have re-discovered my muse with the arrival of the ice and snow. Something just clicked and my years "in the wilderness" were over, and this flowed out...

Welcome In The Winter

Slow contrast, the deepening furrows of darkness
She weaves into my routine as she shifts
From time-delay warmth
To pendulous moth-cloud dullness.
The half-lid interim from wake to sleep.
…
A sneering sister of bright Spring.
For all her taunts she is the more constant
Her palette drained of gaudy greens
An inevitable rust to dust decay
Whose low-light seed she sheens with ice.
…
I welcome in the Winter.
She’ll come anyway, in spite.
She’ll come anyway, preserving light.
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I think buying the complete Ted Hughes collection had something to do with it. Thanks Ted! And thanks Winter!

VT.

[Huathe]

Vapour Trail,

I also welcome the winter. In the past I have always dreaded winter looking at it as a dark, dead and cold time of year. I used to really get the winter blahs terribly. Getting involved with the Eastern Native Tree Society a little over three years ago helped change that. They promoted activities that got me out into the winter forest more and I come to realize that the winter forest had a beauty all it's own. It is only asleep. And it is this time of year that the Holly is in all her glory. I had not been in the winter woods so much since my youth. It was a re-discovery. For the first time in many years I did not dread winter this year. I look forward to it.

" May the Holly King rule! "

By the way, it's a wonderful poem.

[Vapour Trail]

What a heart-warming notion - getting out into the winter forests and reidiscovering their beauty.

Where can we all find some information about this Eastern Native Tree Society, please? The sound like a nice bunch of people?

Thanks,
VT

[Bartholomew]

Brilliant poem Vapour Trail. Hawthorn-Ent, I have the same sentiments as you regarding this winter. I don't usually enjoy the cold and dark days and I hate the run up to christmas with all the commercialism. But this year I wanted it to snow on christmas eve and be all magical and glittery but God sent snow on my birthday the 27th November and it looks like it might stay until christmas eve. So I am well pleased and I hope all the supermarkets run out of bread and milk because of the chaos the snow has caused and people will have to sit in their houses and contemplate nature and consumerism.

[Huathe]

Vapour Trail.

Here are the links to the ENTS BBS and main website.

http://www.ents-bbs.org/index.php
http://www.nativetreesociety.org/

Feel welcome to join.

[Daryvas]

Beautiful imagery, Vapor. I had to remind myself I was still sitting in my living room and not standing in the middle of a snow-covered landscape.