Winter Approaches
like a maple tree in sunlight whose leaves are
most beautiful in autumn before they fall
whose roots reach into deep darkness far below
each root a memory awaiting recall
love is bare winter unadorned
still clearly what it is even without leaves
nourished by the earth's overwintering warmth
down where memories enmesh in threads
our future is born while storms rage above
the planet's defiance pines underground
where soundwaves like shingle sliding in a slurry
warn of mankind maneuvering overhead
love is bare winter unadorned
Persephone's spirit drives seeds to sprout
craves sunlight craves freedom bursts out of concrete
cracks pushed open by the pregnant earth
hope won't be paved over
trees’ leaf again
though snow blocks passes and ice jams streams
belief sustains all of us
as a story unfolds
love is bare winter unadorned
Dick Russell © Richard M Russell
2024
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